ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoHow would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals?message-squaremessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-squareHow would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals?ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square23linkfedilinkfile-text
De Facto countries count as a country for the purposes of this question, including unrecognized ones.
minus-squareNeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down3·1 month ago an effective deterrent to war Do not fool yourself. Nukes have NOT achieved that on their own. It has always been humans who were somewhat responsible and willing to communicate (diplomacy) instead of shooting blindly.
minus-squareisyasad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·1 month agoVasily Arkhipov in 1962 and Stanislav Petrov in 1983 are usually credited as single-handedly preventing nuclear launches. If it wasn’t for them, perhaps people wouldn’t think that nuclear weapons are such a strong deterrent.
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Do not fool yourself. Nukes have NOT achieved that on their own.
It has always been humans who were somewhat responsible and willing to communicate (diplomacy) instead of shooting blindly.
Vasily Arkhipov in 1962 and Stanislav Petrov in 1983 are usually credited as single-handedly preventing nuclear launches. If it wasn’t for them, perhaps people wouldn’t think that nuclear weapons are such a strong deterrent.
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