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There are huge risks that nick bostrom talks about http://www.nickbostrom.com/ http://www.nickbostrom.com/ The only difference is between that and the cold war is that people don't give them due attention because they are non-anthropomorphic (a fight with nature instead of against other humans). If it was the soviets who were behind the asteroid threat, and they were causing old age and cancer, and they were behind worldwide poverty, the US government would be mobilizing trillions of dollars to tackle those problems.