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Re:The stability implications of the US nukes' burst-height ... by ISL on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @06:40PM (#16643097)
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists exists primarily to encourage awareness.

The Doomsday Clock is perhaps imperfect, but it keeps the conversation going, something essential.

I want to live in a world where instantaneous human-caused planetary disasters cannot happen.

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Re:The stability implications of the US nukes' burst-height ... by TeMPOraL on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:57AM (#16646687)
> I want to live in a world where instantaneous human-caused planetary disasters cannot happen.

That may very well stay in the past (until the first such disaster) - the whole point of technology is to have ever finer control over ever more powerful things. Two big subsets of that are ever-increasing energy demands (energy = destructive power), and self-replication (aka. biotechnology).

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