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> Milley/Li over the recent presidential transition in the US I'd genuinely like more info if I'm wrong about this, but wasn't that basically a case of one imp
by retsibsi 5y ago
> Milley/Li over the recent presidential transition in the US
I'd genuinely like more info if I'm wrong about this, but wasn't that basically a case of one important person worrying about what Trump might do?
Trump is among the last people I would be / was comfortable to have wielding massive destructive power. But 'dangerous person was in charge, causing concern he might do something catastrophic' is not really comparable to 'nuclear war only averted by relatively low-ranking individual holding back from following protocol'.
- z3ncyberpunk 5y agoIt was basically treason, since you want to overly simplify
- On918OTFLz 5y agoTrue. But the point stands about why humans don't abolish them considering its one of the biggest threat to all humans. Reminds me of this, funny but makes you think :) - https://xkcd.com/1626/ https://xkcd.com/1626/
- retsibsi 5y agoOh I'm not at all comfortable about the status quo. (And I don't know why you apparently got insta-downvoted.) But I'm not sure how abolition is supposed to happen. I'm no expert, but it seems like the level of mutual surveillance required for a credible worldwide commitment to complete nuclear disarmament would be very difficult to achieve.