It does, but much less if the US or China can take down ICBMs. The hard part is not the bomb but the delivery.
there’s no reason to think the extremely difficult problem of intercepting nuclear ICBMs with the kind of reliability required has or will be solved anytime soon. The thing about nukes it that you don’t really want to let even one through because of the devastating results and you can look at the current events in the middle east to see that while there are interceptors they don’t have anything close to 100% reliability.
there’s no reason to think the extremely difficult problem of intercepting nuclear ICBMs with the kind of reliability required has or will be solved anytime soon. The thing about nukes it that you don’t really want to let even one through because of the devastating results and you can look at the current events in the middle east to see that while there are interceptors they don’t have anything close to 100% reliability.
But you don’t really mind either.
People have risked more for less.
I don’t know that people have ever risked millions of lives like that as would be the case here.
Nobody knew if the atmosphere would burn when the first bomb was tested.
The US did some maneuvers, including the Cuba crisis, that could have triggered nuclear war.
Global warming puts humanity and nature as we know it at an existential risk.
The housing crisis could have led to the collapse of the world economy which would have risked huge famines.
WW2
Keeping the risks of smoking or soft drinks secret.
Outsourcing pharmaceutical production lines to China.