ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoHow would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals?message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-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 · 6 days agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
De Facto countries count as a country for the purposes of this question, including unrecognized ones.
minus-squareisyasad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·6 days 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.
minus-squareERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoPerhaps in other timelines, the world ended. Maybe this is the 1% of timelines that survived.
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.
Perhaps in other timelines, the world ended. Maybe this is the 1% of timelines that survived.