The last hurdle between the world as we know it and nuclear escalation is a sheet of steel reinforced with sharp metal pins. “So these spikes slow down an atomic bomb?” ZDF veteran Claus Kleber asks, somewhat incredulous, when he was at Büchel Air Base in front of a tornado of the Bundeswehr kneels, which, if the worst came to the worst, would carry a three-and-a-half meter long bomb from the ally USA. And Thomas Schneider, commander of Tactical Air Force Squadron 33, confirms: “These spikes slow down the plane, which would then go on this mission,” a mission the colonel calls “putting pinpricks.” Even in times of cyberwars and intelligent weapons, which may soon even be controlled by artificial intelligence, the last resort for mankind is: immobilizer.
ZDF documentary “The Taboo Break” with Claus Kleber – Medien
