how’s about continuing the thought a little bit more and thanking the ‘civilization failure’ or ‘extinction’ possibility as well? The nuclear winter? That’s the only thing which is fundamentally different between nuclear arsenal and WW2 type war. The assured destruction. Not assured losses.
On the contrary! It was maybe the best allocation of taxes of all times. As Margaret Teacher said—be cause of them, we enjoy the decades of peace.
Everything could also went terribly wrong and a billion would die.
But it looks like we were lucky. No great WW3 and even WW4 on the horizon. Thanks to the nuclear arsenal and MAD, of course.
how’s about continuing the thought a little bit more and thanking the ‘civilization failure’ or ‘extinction’ possibility as well? The nuclear winter? That’s the only thing which is fundamentally different between nuclear arsenal and WW2 type war. The assured destruction. Not assured losses.