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Nuclear weapons and the triumph of the human race

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Taking into consideration that many decades have passed by while the U.S. and Soviet Union collectively stock piled enough to make the Earth uninhabitable many times over, I'd say we're doing good. Add to that the relative newcomers to the club within the past 20 years or so - France, India, Pakistan along with some other veterans - England and China.

Yeah, not a single nuke used aggressively since the A-bombs were dropped on Japan. As a race, we really disproved all the nay-sayers who were convinced we couldn't last this long with this destructive technology right under our fingertips. And yet, here we are today completely unscathed. I'd say the human race deserves a round of applause.

Congratulations!
 
Icepick said:
Taking into consideration that many decades have passed by while the U.S. and Soviet Union collectively stock piled enough to make the Earth uninhabitable many times over, I'd say we're doing good. Add to that the relative newcomers to the club within the past 20 years or so - France, India, Pakistan along with some other veterans - England and China.

Yeah, not a single nuke used aggressively since the A-bombs were dropped on Japan. As a race, we really disproved all the nay-sayers who were convinced we couldn't last this long with this destructive technology right under our fingertips. And yet, here we are today completely unscathed. I'd say the human race deserves a round of applause.

Congratulations!
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You don't seem to realize how close we came to the brink back in the 1960s. We have disproved nothing.
 
Thank capitalism.

Capitalism has made Europe and most of Asia a peaceful place because we now hold economic stakes in each other country's financial success.

You wouldn't bomb a country when you hold billions of dollars of their bonds? Or if your citizen's businesses do billions of dollars in business in that country?
 
JMapleton said:
Thank capitalism.

Capitalism has made Europe and most of Asia a peaceful place because we now hold economic stakes in each other country's financial success.

You wouldn't bomb a country when you hold billions of dollars of their bonds? Or if your citizen's businesses do billions of dollars in business in that country?
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Good point. With the economies of most of the world's developed nations tightly interconnected WMD's don't make sense. The world has come a long way in the last 100 years.
 
LordMorpheus said:
I was about to post this. It's crazy, I would have guessed the total number of nukes set off to be about 10% of that number.

On the other hand, what are the odds that the Soviet Union and the USA fight a real war without the nuclear threat? Nukes have saved countless lives (so far, anyway ... )
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Very low unless the US makes the first move. The Soviets couldn't carry on a conventional war with us if they wanted to.
 
JMapleton said:
Thank capitalism.

Capitalism has made Europe and most of Asia a peaceful place because we now hold economic stakes in each other country's financial success.

You wouldn't bomb a country when you hold billions of dollars of their bonds? Or if your citizen's businesses do billions of dollars in business in that country?
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This
 
As a student of history and an observer of current events, nuclear exchange has not been taken off the table. Not by a long shot.
 
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