In his Graveyard Spiral, Dailey created a form coiling in on itself, drawing us through a maze of color-coded operational plans for employing nuclear weapons. The five colors match those used by the U.S. Armed Forces to indicate increasing levels of severity for varying military situations and graduated alert states of the defense readiness condition (DEFCON). As we consider such linguistically acrobatic and sanitized options as “single integrated operational plan,” “limited nuclear options,” “counterforce,” “launch on warning,” “first strike,” and “leadership decapitation,” we are inexorably pulled deeper into the dizzying array of consequential decisions that come under consideration in political and military planning in the atomic age.