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-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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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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