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It's funny because the open source arms control community (like Martin Pfeiffer[1]) works really hard to inform people of how few safeguards our nuclear policy
by aeturnum 5y ago
It's funny because the open source arms control community (like Martin Pfeiffer[1]) works really hard to inform people of how few safeguards our nuclear policy has. But even those anemic safeguards (the idea that only the president can arbitrarily launch nukes) have frequently been illusory!
I genuinely think we way-under-rate how closely we escaped nuclear annihilation in the last 100 years.
[1] https://twitter.com/NuclearAnthro https://twitter.com/NuclearAnthro