Maybe a war with nuclear weapons is just what we need. Wipe the chalk off the blackboard. Go back to square one. Hit that big RESET button and start over again. Would that new world be different? Probably. Would it be better? We'll never know unless we try.
Nuclear weapons are weird. Humanity created a super weapon, the most destructive device we knew how to build. The result? The end of very large scale wars. But we kill as well as we can with "conventional" weapons. Nukes may have prevented their own use but they certainly didn't bring peace. Yes, it's a radical idea but since nukes did not bring peace, what they assuredly can do is end humanity's ability to fight wars right across the board. That would be the Pax Atomica. Amen.…
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