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Good thing we were able to avoid billions of deaths without nuking every major USSR city?
by Smoofer 5y ago
Good thing we were able to avoid billions of deaths without nuking every major USSR city?
- sugarpile 5y agoAnd should nuclear war ever occur? ~70 years is a relatively short time frame. Check back with me in another 200 and let me know if your comment still holds.
- khafra 5y agoIs your theory that nuking the USSR would have completely prevented nuclear proliferation for at least two centuries? That no other nation would have developed nukes in secret, or stolen some from the USA? Or is your theory that nuking China, India, Pakistan, France, Israel, etc., as soon as they started to get nuclear weapons would still be worth it? If you're saying global thermonuclear war is a bigger risk than we tend to think, e.g. because of anthropic shadow effects, I agree. But I still don't think there's positive expected value in a pre-emptive all-out nuclear attack.
- solveit 5y agoYes. But it was a goddamned miracle. You can't read about Petrov and Arkhipov and tell me von Neumann was wrong.