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Originally Posted by MSD
Disarmament is a feel-good bullshit gesture, and mutually assured destruction, not idealism or goodwill, is what has kept us from being destroyed.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
this sounds very doctor strangelove.
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Maybe it does sound like something out of Doctor Strangelove. But it is true, for the most part, that it's been "mutually assured destruction", and not idealism or goodwill, that has kept the world from being destroyed by a nuclear war.
As for "disarmament": What is the difference, really, whether the world has 1,500
operational (i.e. not merely
intact) nuclear warheads, or 15,000? Because, 1,500 would be more than enough to destroy the world.