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Re:The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018) by jmnicolas on Friday May 29, 2020 @10:58AM (#23350667)
> It is good that now we have Ukrainian launch officers that can divulge information on Soviet launch tech. The part of strategic rocket forces that stayed in Russia managed to keep secrecy perfect for 30 years.

Why is it good ? So that your country thinks they can "win" a nuclear war ?

In a perfect world there wouldn't be any nuclear weapon. But in our imperfect world I'd rather have MAD than some yahoo thinking first strike is a good idea because they think they can stop the opposite side from retaliating.

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Re:The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018) by Nginx487 on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:05PM (#23358117)
"Nuclear parity is a condition at a given point in time when opposing forces possess offensive and defensive systems approximately equal in overall combat effectiveness"

World with nukes appeared to be more peaceful than without. While nuclear superpowers have parity, conventional war between them is impossible. This is the reason why we we never had WWIII between Soviets/Russia/China and US/NATO. However, other measures like economical pressure and trade wars, espionage, proxy wars, and now informational war are still ongoing. I would leave as a statement that all these things are "much better" than real World War.

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