Nuclear war would have been unimaginably awful, and Petrov deserves all the positive attention he’s getting and more. But there’s a distinction between destroying the world and destroying much of the world, and our descendants a millions years from now, if any, will find this distinction very significant.
Nuclear war would have been unimaginably awful, and Petrov deserves all the positive attention he’s getting and more. But there’s a distinction between destroying the world and destroying much of the world, and our descendants a millions years from now, if any, will find this distinction very significant.