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The daemonization of nuclear during the cold war, prerequisite for the MAD threat, led to hypersecure research centers, centralization of funding and research,
by eastbound 4y ago
The daemonization of nuclear during the cold war, prerequisite for the MAD threat, led to hypersecure research centers, centralization of funding and research, preventing tinkerers from studying new solutions, and ultimately nuclear innovation completely halting. As you said, many suggest that if we had left it run its course, we might have seen nuclear stacks the size of a washing machine powering neighborhoods, and other applications entirely unimagined today.
- dallasg3 4y agoMutual Assured Destruction
- DocTomoe 4y agoGiven what happens when the average Joe encounters a small, moveable, scrappable machine [1][2], I am pretty happy we never saw your nuclear washing machine-sized power plants... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_contamination_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_c...