Televised images of Iranian crowds burning American flags and shouting “Death to the Great Satan!” had become a nightly routine,
That's what I would want the missile silo folks to be like. Burn a flag, shout death threats to the enemies and go home, going though the routine like it was pantomime. And, one day, the pantomime would kill millions.
I would want everyone to know just how indifferent to the consequences we had made our men, so no one would doubt or resolve.
The real nuclear missiles would be nowhere near these amoral freaks, of course. I mean, fuck, once you have them practicing to kill millions at a moment's notice, going through the motions until it becomes routine... These aren't people you trust with anything. They are an abomination.