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Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined by njarboe on Sunday August 26, 2018 @01:36AM (#17844450)
Large numbers of nuclear weapons means total war between nuclear powers will escalate very quickly to nuclear armageddon. This (MAD) has prevented total war for generations, but has very costly tail risks that people growing up in the post-Cold War era are not likely to appreciate.
Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined by v_lisivka on Sunday August 26, 2018 @06:50AM (#17845296)
Why nuclear? Why not chemical or biological WMD?
Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined by njarboe on Sunday August 26, 2018 @12:50PM (#17846670)
Chemical and biological really should not be grouped into the WMD label. They are not nearly as effective in the M and the D. See the saran attack on Tokyo. One small nuke would have been thousands of times more deadly. For a chemical attack to be as effective as a nuke one would need hundreds or thousands of bombs dropped on a single city. If you are going to do that then a firebombing raid can be much more effective for destruction. 300 B-29 caused more damage in a single night over Tokyo than either of the nuclear attacks later in the war (modern nukes are much bigger though).
Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined by mmirate on Sunday August 26, 2018 @07:08AM (#17845360)
Because nuclear - with exception of neutron bombs - destroys buildings, resources and materiel as well as people; chemical and biological attacks mostly don't.