Comment on A slightly different experience
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWelllll… Neither the US nor the Soviet Union had complete lunatics running the country at the time.
Comment on A slightly different experience
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWelllll… Neither the US nor the Soviet Union had complete lunatics running the country at the time.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think that the multiverse exist and we’re the 1% of timelines that the cold war didnt go hot.
Imagine Stannislav Petrov tripping on a banana peel and ending up in the hospital instead of going to work and monitoring for nukes, or if Vasily Arkhipov suddenly develops caustrophobia right before that submarine mission to Cuba.
DarthFrodo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some of the most powerful people of the world work hard to get us closer.