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Re:Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet? by python-guy-vt on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:25AM (#16151415)
Very simple: Mutually assured destruction
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Re:Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet? by zimbatm on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:32AM (#16151478)
Not that simple, there are multiple historically recorded close calls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

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Re:Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet? by python-guy-vt on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:46PM (#16152462)
How does this negate mutually assured destruction? If anything it enforces the idea that this is why we have only had close calls. No one wants to be responsible for starting the demise of (at the very least) two countries.
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Re:Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet? by snarf21 on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:47AM (#16151589)
Or everyone just prefers a nice game of chess. :)
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