事实上，每当核资产最为危险的时刻 — — 比方说苏联解体、中国文革和阿尔及尔政变（当时一群叛乱退役将领曾将目光投向法国正在阿尔及利亚沙漠测试的核设施 ） — —最后这些设施都并未遭到攻陷。
Indeed, whenever nuclear assets have been least secure – during the Soviet Union’s collapse, China’s Cultural Revolution, and the Algiers putsch (when a group of mutinous retired generals set their sights on a nuclear device that France was testing in the Algerian desert) – they have not been compromised.