Quite a lineup on nuclear weapons in today's @washingtonpost Outlook section!
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They (taboo and deterrence) are unmeasurable, untestable, and not scientific in any serious sense.
Similarly, taboos can be broken. They cannot be relied upon to perfectly regulate behavior (with states or individuals).
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Nothing can be relied on to “perfectly regulate behavior.” We are human beings. We never have perfectly regulated behavior.
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The difficulty we have with the case of nukes is that the acceptable number of failures is zero or near zero.
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Absolutely. Nuclear weapons require perfection. And human beings can’t be perfect.
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Here's the bind I'm always in re: nukes and abolition calls. 1) I agree that the existential risk of large nuclear arsenals is very high.
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