Where we actually stand tonight, stripped of everything else:
Forty-eight allied thermonuclear warheads are at sea and cannot be found.
About sixty American warheads are on the ground in Europe and cannot be moved.
American strategic forces are at DEFCON 2.
The invisible deterrent works perfectly. The forward-based one has been converted into a hostage. Every doctrine paper written since 1968 needs rewriting, and the people who will rewrite them are currently at fifteen minutes' notice.