[jvmboi]

I don't understand your motivation to type this many words in order to make, what amounts to, generic excuses (1) for people that take a huge chunk of your paycheck in order to balance the world on the knives edge of nuclear deterrence and somehow managing to fuck up the one thing that is the whole point of the exercise.

Mind you, I am not even taking a moral stance here, I am just saying that if we have nuclear weapons can we please not lower the bar on competency in their handling.

1) maybe the reasons you give are plausible but they are essentially based on no real information about what happened here

[ilaksh]

I'm not making excuses I am trying to give my theory on their error which was simply to not spend the money to do a real test before doing a demo.

[jvmboi]

This was a real test. They have done this 192 times. It failed two times. The last two times. So it's not that this is inherently impossible, it's just that they can't do it anymore. I think, given the stakes, it's probably best not to just give them a pass.

Source for the number of tests: https://news.sky.com/story/trident-missile-misfired-and-cras...