Just an interesting bit of perspective - that was written in 1985, 33 years after the detonation of the first thermonuclear bomb, and 33 years before today. De

Just an interesting bit of perspective - that was written in 1985, 33 years after the detonation of the first thermonuclear bomb, and 33 years before today. Despite good-faith hand wringing and bad-faith fear mongering, it seems to me we're further removed from a nuclear war than ever. There are valid fears of nuclear weapons in the hands of rogue states or non-state actors, but as someone whose been alive the whole time, the idea of some kind of massive globe encompassing nuclear conflict seems far more remote than it did in the 1980's.