by gstoddart (321705) writes: what is the point of needing to stockpile nuclear weapons?Well, back in the day, the rationale was that with Mutually Assured Destruction, anybody would be, er, mad to set one off.I am not sure anybody else believed that at the time, but that was the reason given 30 years ago or so.Now it seems to be mostly because we have had them so long we need to hang onto them in cas