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While the paranoia of the cold war was certainly terrifying and its sure that we narrowly avoided nuclear strikes several times. MAD stayed the hands of the meg
by MeImCounting 3y ago
While the paranoia of the cold war was certainly terrifying and its sure that we narrowly avoided nuclear strikes several times. MAD stayed the hands of the megalomaniacs capable of pulling the trigger and fortunately it seems we are at a point where such paranoia is no longer quite so prevalent in society.
- haswell 3y agoThe paranoia is no longer prevalent, but I don't think this has much bearing on the underlying risk that exists regardless of the degree of awareness by the general population. One of the only reasons MAD has held up is because we've successfully restricted the reach of nuclear weapons, i.e. if every country that wanted them could get them, the average person would have a lot more reasons to be paranoid.