Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world?

• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”

  ― Carl Sagan

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• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hasn’t failed yet (yes I know that’s the survivorship bias fallacy)

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This points to a flaw in your question.

  You probably should have said “foolproof countermeasure” if you really just wanted to remove nukes as a factor to see what happens.

  But you said “foolproof deterrent” and now you’re quibbling at people over whether a psychological deterrent can actually be foolproof.

  Maybe not, but even your question is nonsensical. The fact is that we are already using guaranteed total destruction of the world as a deterrent and it has so far worked. What more deterrence are you even suggesting we might add to that???

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