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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.
PS folks who think 'mutually assured destruction' protected us from nuclear annihilation really need to read 'The doomsday machine' by nuclear strategist @DanielEllsberg. Our world was in the hands of reckless, immoral fools for decades.
Every gambler who hasn't gone bankrupt yet: 'Gambling always worked out well for me!'
Were you just as surprised as I was when reading the chapter on the Trinity test? His account was the first to establish the serious uncertainty about atmospheric/oceanic ignition, beyond the usual quirky, brief mention given by all conventional accounts.
I was deeply shocked when I read that and had a pretty sleepless night.
Still, unilateral disarmament seems to be a bad idea. Or should we risk ending up in a world where only regimes like North Korea have nuclear weapons?
Because it is no longer the case ?
I saw that Stanislav Petrov recently died. But for a few circumstances, history could have been very different.https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/18/551792129/stanislav-petrov-the-man-who-saved-the-world-dies-at-77 …
"for decades" implies a change of some sort?
...But if there was a reliable way to nuke an enemy and avoid retaliation, I’m sure it would have happened during the Cold War
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