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Probably not. We're doing a lot better than we were 100 years ago, and nuclear weapons have been a great deterrent to stop many countries from engaging in wars
by stevenjohns 8y ago
Probably not. We're doing a lot better than we were 100 years ago, and nuclear weapons have been a great deterrent to stop many countries from engaging in wars that they might have been more tempted to if at least one of the parties didn't have nuclear weapons.
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoWe've had almost constant small-scale proxy wars instead, and the arms industry isn't exactly going through hard times. More realistically, we got lucky and barely dodged the armageddon bullet on a number of occasions.