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In 1940, a lot of people said it was impossible to build a nuclear bomb.

• pvg 1y ago
  Not really, no. Also they were perfectly aware of the destructive potential of really big bombs. This risk of increasingly big weapons that can destroy civilization were completely obvious, regardless of their mechanism of operation. Your analogy doesn't hold up because weapons were real, mass mobilization conflict between industrial societies was real. Plus you've now switched it around - first it was people who warned against the risks of nuclear war (effectively everyone), now it's people who didn't believe nuclear weapons were possible in 1940 (effectively nobody), etc. There has to be more to an argument than a mention of turkeys and rhetorical swerves.