If Mr. Palmisano is soon to leave IBM, as the article indicates as likely, we can surely hope the Board will seek out a replacement who is equally willing to make the right resource allocation decisions.
In short, despite the welcome recognition of the need for credible sub-strategic nuclear deterrent forces for the foreseeable future, the actual decisions taken at the NATO summit set the stage for inaction on replacement of obsolescing systems and for new negotiations that will make it problematic even to retain the aging ones now deployed.