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Yes, it has the potential to break the MAD equilibrium. It's very ironic to me that offensive technologies do not threaten world peace as much as defensive tech

Yes, it has the potential to break the MAD equilibrium. It's very ironic to me that offensive technologies do not threaten world peace as much as defensive technologies.

kbutler 8y ago
MAD is a local maximum of peace, but only if we define "peace" to include "tense standoff". It appears to be the best we can do in the presence of overwhelmingly powerful offensive capabilities. Imagine the different "peace" if instead we had overwhelmingly powerful defensive capabilities.
- Sangermaine 8y ago
  But everyone would have to have those, or else the first country to develop them would have an insurmountable advantage. A country that has both nuclear weapons and the ability to block all attacks including nuclear would rule the world, or at least dominate it without opposition.
  - azernik 8y ago
    Hence the local maximum.
  - komali2 8y ago
    Or, everyone would have to have a strong sense that nuclear launches weren't possible. I'm thinking along the lines of grey-hat anarchists constantly attacking everyone's nuclear capabilities. "If nobody is super, everybody is super."
drb91 8y ago
...as if “world peace” is a thing.
samirm 8y ago
>It's very ironic to me that offensive technologies do not threaten world peace as much as defensive technologies. ummm... what?