my impression is that at least the older 1st generation nukes were designed to be armed manually during flight and not until the need arose (specific target identified, weather path clear, etc). otherwise you could drop one on the runway while loading it and it would go off at the air base.
so i wonder how much of this story is actually true and how much of it is politically motivated. if it is politically motivated, who benefits? what powerful entity is pushing, for example, for unilateral disarmament and destruction of our nukes?
“what powerful entity is pushing....?”
The KGB/DNC Axis of Evil.