@JRHunTx Viability? Vindication? Until _when_? The entire construct of nuclear deterrence stands upon an absurdist premise hanging upon an unraveling thread.
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Copy of tweet here: #HiroshimaDay2022 The US nuclear stockpile currently comprises some 3,700 deployed bombs/warheads, equivalent to about 58,039 Hiroshima-sized bombs. Explode one of those bombs per minute and it would take 40.3 days to use them all. Nuclear weapons remain the greatest threat, by far, to long term human well being and civilizational integrity There's plenty to be despondent about this #HiroshimaDay, but given the grotesque assortment of festering despots, lethal clowns, and howling nut jobs currently in power all over the world, we're fucking lucky any of us are still here at all. Noam Chomsky Quotes It's hard to contest the conclusion of the last commander of the Strategic Air Command, Gen . Lee Butler, that humanity has so far survived the nuclear age “by some combination of skill, luck and divine intervention, and I suspect the latter in greatest proportion.”
@thebafflermag And the superpower game-theory of this moment? You mean the manifest escalation in a form of psychotic absolutism blended with sudden, massive, Cloud-driven amplification of warfare technologies now integrating the nuclear weaponization of AI? Ah, yes, "a tiny flaw in the plan".