Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals?

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isyasad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Vasily Arkhipov in 1962 and Stanislav Petrov in 1983 are usually credited as single-handedly preventing nuclear launches. If it wasn’t for them, perhaps people wouldn’t think that nuclear weapons are such a strong deterrent.

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