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And if the power of nuclear warheads were democratised we'd be even safer – HN, probably.
by kypro 19d ago
And if the power of nuclear warheads were democratised we'd be even safer – HN, probably.
- luma 19d agoThe 80 years thing actually happened. One can argue about MAD and the nuclear threat, but we don't have to guess at what happened. It worked.
- kragen 19d ago(insert standard anthropic-principle counterargument)
- edbaskerville 19d agoThe problem with MAD is it's a deterministic framework. It doesn't properly account for the risk of a war caused by mistake. If Stanislav Petrov hadn't been in the chain of command, MAD might not have worked. And it could still fail to work in the future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
- raincole 19d ago- Ukrainians, definitely.
- AdamN 19d agoThat's been a posited theory for decades - it's not just some HN edgelord thing. There are some obvious problems with it of course and the P5 have instead taken a maximalist attitude towards keeping the genie in the bottle (notwithstanding Atoms for Peace and accommodating India/Pakistan when it became inevitable).