an ironic piece the pro-nuclear proliferation stance of the administration:
Musk's longstanding reason for going to Mars is that because of nuclear weapons, humans probably only have a brief period it can afford technology to go to Mars. That period is now. At some point we will blow ourselves up and revert to survival rather than thriving and rocket science.
So it's now or never for a Mars colony. To extend the survivability of the human species. Which is Musk's rational for having SpaceX get humans to Mars. To save humanity by having a human outpost on a different planet.
BUT
Musk got all political and went to work for m'aga, which will bring on nuclear proliferation and shorten the window we have to get to Mars and to the species bi-planetary and more likely to survive. Musk is undermining his own most serious belief.