I'm not terribly comforted by this. The outcome would still be a disaster on a scale never seen before, and would wreck modern civilization. It baffles me how

I'm not terribly comforted by this. The outcome would still be a disaster on a scale never seen before, and would wreck modern civilization. It baffles me how the threat of nuclear war has essentially disappeared from the public consciousness. People seem to think that the danger evaporated with the USSR, but it's still there, as likely as it ever was, quite possibly more so now that there are so many more nuclear powers.