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Re:Ask HN: Why Hasn't the Doomsday Clock Advanced? by soheil on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:07AM (#33160004)
irrational: false equivalency

  nukes <> conventional weapons
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Re:Ask HN: Why Hasn't the Doomsday Clock Advanced? by irrational on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:32AM (#33162569)
Why not? We have conventional weapons today that are more destructive than those two nuclear bombs unleashed over Japan. They were quite small bombs by todays standards. You are equally dead no matter what the explosive material is.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Hasn't the Doomsday Clock Advanced? by soheil on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:32AM (#33163157)
Lookup No first use doctrine

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

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