Existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons are adequate to destroy any industrial economy on Earth. Total war between industrialized nations lasted years in the 194

Existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons are adequate to destroy any industrial economy on Earth. Total war between industrialized nations lasted years in the 1940s because the vast majority of weapons failed to harm their targets, largely due to inadequate aiming. But since the 1970s people have had good precision guided weapons. Since the 1950s people have had weapons that can miss the target by miles and still destroy it. If two great powers wage total war with today's most destructive weapons, there won't be enough surviving people and infrastructure left to develop a next generation of even more destructive weapons.