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I think mutually assured destruction thanks to nuclear weapons has ended large scale warfare. That technology ensures even the leaders die if a war starts. That

I think mutually assured destruction thanks to nuclear weapons has ended large scale warfare. That technology ensures even the leaders die if a war starts. That makes it a tool of what we would consider a truly insane person. So, I agree that technology has likely ended large scale wars for our lifetime but I think we will see evolving forms of conflict. To fight is human. We are still animals after all.

hypertele-Xii 6y ago
> I think mutually assured destruction thanks to nuclear weapons has ended large scale warfare. Needed to fact-check this claim. Wars [1] since the first and last nuclear weapons used in war - the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 - roughly ordered by death toll: Bangladesh Liberation War, 3M Second Congo War, 2.5M..5.4M Vietnam War, 2.4M..4.3M Korean War, 1.5M..4.5M War in Afghanistan, 1.2M..2M Second Sudanese Civil War, 1M..2M Nigerian Civil War, 1M..3M Rwandan genocide, 0.8M Soviet–Afghan War, 0.6M..2M Angolan Civil War, 0.5M Ethiopian Civil War, 0.5M..1.5M First Sudanese Civil War, 0.5M Iraq War, 0.4M..0.7M Algerian War, 0.4M..1.5M First Indochina War, 0.4M Syrian Civil War, 0.4M..0.6M War in Darfur, 0.3M Burundian Civil War, 0.3M Somali Civil War, 0.3M..0.5M Iran–Iraq War, 0.3M..1.1M War on Terror, 0.3M..1.3M First Congo War, 0.3M..0.8M plus some 4M combined from wars smaller than 250K TOTAL 23M .. 41M The estimated death toll of the last big war before that - Second World War - 56M .. 85M people. For comparison, over 100M people died in warefare in the middle ages. Checks out. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll#Modern_wars_with_greater_than_25,000_deaths_by_death_toll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll#Mod...