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As I wrote recently in another thread: The fact that every nuclear weapon in the world will be used does not mean the "immediate extinction" of the people. Each nuclear weapon kills people only in the range of 5-10 miles from the point of impact. (Some people have disagreed with this, but even if i...

Didn't they say something like that when dynamite was invented? A few sticks of dynamite didn't hold the power to destroy all the major industry and infrastructure of a country within 20 minutes notice. Wasn't World War I -- the Great War -- called the War to End All Wars? That wasn't true though. ...

Why do you guys insist that a full scale war is even possible between nuclear armed powers? Such a thing is not possible. Ever since the invention of nuclear weapons the doctrine of MAD has held peace between the major world powers. MAD holds peace under the following conditions: 1. Countries have t...