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It doesn't guarantee mutual annihilation at all. We've already used nuclear weapons, and there's certainly the possibility they will be used again in future con
by king_magic 6y ago
It doesn't guarantee mutual annihilation at all. We've already used nuclear weapons, and there's certainly the possibility they will be used again in future conflicts in a limited scale that doesn't end civilization.
My point is: if you do a good enough job pretending that an alien has already come and gave us a stern warning, you can potentially influence your adversary's thinking.
- Theory5 6y ago"It doesn't guarantee mutual annihilation at all. We've already used nuclear weapons" That's a weird thing to say. When was the last time we used them, during a war? Back before any other power had them. Literally the US was the only country with those bombs. That's obviously not mutually assured anything. Now, almost everyone has at least one, and the US and Russia have many more.
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