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Nuclear weapons ushered in a period of peace never before seen in human history. Death rates in war have been at historic lows post WWII.
by colechristensen 4y ago
Nuclear weapons ushered in a period of peace never before seen in human history. Death rates in war have been at historic lows post WWII.
- raisin_churn 4y agoPost hoc ergo propter hoc
- alex_sf 4y agoOk, then what else explains the long peace?
- drewm1980 4y agoUnsustainable prosperity fueled by fossil fuels.
- alex_sf 4y agoWe had fossil fuels during both world wars.
- fjkgfifjfuvf 4y agothe many men, women and children they kill daily to get it. just because there's no colonial empires fighting each other, doesn't mean there's peace.
- alex_sf 4y agoThe number of people killed 'daily' is vastly less than it has been at any other point in history. Why is it more peaceful now?
- geysersam 4y agoTrade, democracy?
- alex_sf 4y agoThe Greeks and Romans had varying levels of democracy and vast trade networks for hundreds (arguably thousands) of years.
- vkou 4y agoMaybe for citizens of major imperial powers, but looking at a global picture, they've regressed us to the mean. https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-years https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-yea... (Logarithmic scale, does not include the conflicts of the past 20 years)
- fooblaster 4y agoFor now, maybe. It only takes one escalation or a series of unfortunate mistakes for this status quo to shift dramatically, over the course of a few hours.