In a world where a possibly-irrational actor is using “do what we tell you or you get nuked” as an instrument of foreign policy against a load of other possibly-irrational actors, how long would it be before something went horribly wrong?
Is a world in which only one possibly-irrational actor has nukes and can make threats more likely to go wrong or upon going wrong go horribly wrong, than a world in which dozens of possibly-irrational actors have nukes and can make threats?
In a world where a possibly-irrational actor is using “do what we tell you or you get nuked” as an instrument of foreign policy against a load of other possibly-irrational actors, how long would it be before something went horribly wrong?
Is a world in which only one possibly-irrational actor has nukes and can make threats more likely to go wrong or upon going wrong go horribly wrong, than a world in which dozens of possibly-irrational actors have nukes and can make threats?