I guess I'm kind of gambling on the fact that the capacity to deliver on the contracts will further atrophy.

This is a way to have the various people who might be interested in reversing that trend to all distract each other for a while so that the cognitive and industrial basis for the manufacture of these stupid devices is lost. Give them some fun contracts, timelines, meetings, engineering problems, committees and other intrigues to get tangled up in. Make everyone feel important.

For a little while, pay them extravagantly. (Just never ever paid in weapons! only money other other financial methods.)

But it's only a temporary fix because of course some smart asses could make it again from scratch if need be, given time and commitment. So I will humbly admit it is not comprehensive path to world peace.