At age 16, I despaired about the risk of global thermonuclear war. I was right to worry. It was a real risk; adults weren't on top of it; & it's blind luck we're still here. But not everything teens worry about proves to be as catastrophic as they think.
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Read my little story about how my uncle accidentally drove a US tank into East Germany at the height of the Berlin Crisis. I'm not sure if he almost started a nuclear war, or saved us from one!
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Nice timing, two days till the anniversary of Stanislov Petrov saving the world
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Whatever blind luck was involved in averting nuclear disaster, it ultimately had to do with the human beings not doing dangerous things. With climate change, the analogous "inaction" would be curbing CO2 emissions. Is that what you mean by blind luck?
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