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The 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.
by luma 20d ago
The 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 20d 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