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Comment by echelon

Nuclear war seems like the most plausible end to humanity, yet popular culture hasn't thought about it much since the end of the cold war. It's not a part of the zeitgeist anymore.

Nuclear armed nations are back to increasing and modernizing stockpiles rather than diminishing them. New delivery mechanisms that are impossible to track and counter. Proliferation of nuclear weapons is becoming an issue too. Everybody's getting in on the party.

Nuclear weapons are a type of great filter if there ever was one.

parent echelon 4 years ago

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