Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby

Wednesday 7 October 2015

Let's keep the nukes... for now

I don't want us to give up the nuclear deterrent juuuuust yet.

"We do not have nuclear weapons so that we can wipe out the planet in the case that someone launches a nuclear strike against us. All that would do is turn an awful situation into a total apocalypse. Rather, we have them so that that situation can't happen in the first place. The threat of our nukes prevent others from using theirs."
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  1. Rhys Taylor7 October 2015 at 19:11

    MAD, like the monarchy, is an absolutely stupid idea that has the unfortunate habit of somehow actually working.

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