Let's say the US balkanizes, becomes decentralized and finally stateless. What to do with the nukes that were left over? Who controls them if there's no central power? Obviously, there should just be no nukes, but let's say other countries that are still states have them, so would it be prudent to denuclearize?
put them on orbital missile platforms to defend the earth from aliens.
The aliens are comrades. Capitalists could never build sustainable interstellar vehicles, there's no profit in interstellar travel plus they'd inevitably consume each other. Capitalism is the Great Filter. A dolphin told me this.
everyone's all for this until they remember that a rocket carrying a ton of nuclear weapons is going directly overhead.