Not to mention the fact that simply developing a next generation anti-ballistic missile defence network defeats the point of M.A.D.

China/Russia/literally everyone with nukes will see this as a massive provocation.

Obligatory Monty Python reference:
"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving

And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour

That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,

A sun that is the source of all our power"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqt...

Fair, enter 3D printing stage left!

The prices for stepper motors, motor drivers, etc have all been driven progressively further down in the last 10 years.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNTu...

Basically, a 3D microtome scanning mill feeding into a retrofitted MiSeq for mass processing insect slices.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKQ3...

A belt drive system with the guts of a MiSeq and a pre-arranged grid of thousands of microtome slices could in theory used to generate lipid tissue photography that can be stitched back together into a 3d model of insects and include where and what their tissue is made of.

Provided it'll glow.

Follow-up, I don't have the MiSeq in my possession yet but I may look into exactly this.

Recreating 3D images from insects and histological samples and fluorescing tissue microtome slices could be very cool.

A key question I have relates to cold tolerance in Arctic insects and sub-Arctic insects.

Cool!

Google "Lab in a Suitcase". There are several people using that term since I first saw it being used in connection with Josh Quick's 2016 paper about nanopore sequencing in West Africa during the Ebola outbreak.

www.nature.com/articles/nat...

Cool! Honestly though, someone needs to put this all in one device but in a sealed, vibration/impact resistant Pelican case.

Why?

Instant DNA sequencing results anywhere in the world in hours.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd8D...

1 hour and 35 min annnnnd I'll personally own a quite-likely functional Illumina MiSeq DNA Sequencer.