they already are

quasi-normalcy: > sistersorrow: > >> quasi-normalcy: >> >>> earhartsease: >>> >>>> transhuman-priestess: >>>> >>>>> quasi-normalcy: >>>>> >>>>>> I’ve heard lots of people in Canada talking about how we should have a nuclear deterrent given Trump’s belligerence; apparently people in the Nordic countries are thinking about the same. I’m sure there are a lot of people in Ukraine who regret decommissioning their nukes after they left the Soviet Union. >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyways, I worry that this is the future of nuclear proliferation: not just the province of a great powers, but a mad scramble for every country that can build them to do so to keep the great powers off their backs. I feel like the risk of a nuclear exchange would go up sharply in such a circumstance. >>>>> >>>>> You would be absolutely correct in your assessment. >>>>> >>>>> Not simply because a smaller arsenal means a stronger “use it or lose it” impulse, but because the chance of accident, miscalculation, and madness multiplies with each weapon produced. >>>>> >>>>> I feel like this was always going to be the end result of nuclear arsenals remaining after the end of the Cold War. Many things remain that should have been un-made. >>>> >>>> and we have no one ring to melt, they’ve all got to go somehow and we know they won’t because this planet has way too many isildurs running it >>> >>> Some of them are Saurons. >> >> How long until Palantir gets hooked into the nuclear systems? > > Don’t even joke about that ~~they already are~~