The human urge to believe the unthinkable can never happen is the very column of smoke underneath which the unthinkable advances.
Conversation
Decades on from the Cuban Missile Crisis, there has been no essential change in the capacity for mutually assured destruction.
The fact that it didn't happen then was the result of heroic action. There is no guarantee of such repetition now.
Replying to
Meanwhile, the sociopaths of today are just as willing as the sociopaths of the past to keep pushing, prodding and pulling at every chance of escalation.
4