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It’s funny how the Cold War went away with its primary ideological villain, the USSR, but the big underlying material threat (nukes) got worse in proliferation terms, even though global nuclear war threat receded. So we process net threat differently and judge risk to be lower.
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We’ve created smaller and smaller nukes that would immediately lead to escalation, and so by reducing even the potential use of one to bringing about the end of civilization as we know it, we have created the infinite-Mexican-stand-off.
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I'm not sure it's so much "ideologic villain" with nukes so much as level of tensions between countries with nukes. I think ppl would say there was a pt with N Korea where it was pretty risky
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