Nuclear Weapons Deterrence

The cluster centers on debates about the role of nuclear weapons in deterring wars, their risks compared to emerging technologies like AI, and arguments for or against proliferation and disarmament.

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US WW4 WW3 INF START MAD WWII UN nuclear nuclear weapons weapons nukes war doomsday wars world bomb nuclear war

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mike256 Feb 18, 2024 View on HN

Because some people think the world needs nuclear weapons :-(

arethuza Oct 5, 2015 View on HN

I thought nuclear weapons were supposed to deter wars?

dataflow Mar 22, 2022 View on HN

Shouldn't nuclear weapons enter the calculation somewhere?

kjhmkghn Oct 9, 2010 View on HN

If they had nuclear weapons they might !

cambalache Oct 11, 2020 View on HN

We already have something 10000000X worse: Nuclear Weapons, that cat is out of the bag. So either we dismantle all nuclear arsenals in the world or we stop giving the "potential socio-political inestability"as a reason to not building more nuclear plants.You are stopping the butcher to use big knives for fear he may go insane in the future and kill some customers with them, when millions of weapons are highly available.

q1w2 May 31, 2023 View on HN

Like giving nuclear weapons to everyone. What could go wrong?

yeetman21 Oct 24, 2020 View on HN

>That's no longer possible thanks to nuclear weaponsits in the post you replied to, c'mon man

Crito Feb 20, 2014 View on HN

Like nuclear weapons, but without the MAD.

rebolek Jul 11, 2023 View on HN

We had nuclear weapons for almost 80 years and the world still hasn't ended. And I think that nuclear weapons are way more dangerous than Markov chains on steroids.

pixl97 Sep 3, 2018 View on HN

That's only because we are trying to avoid total war, hence the release of nuclear weapons. If nukes didn't exist, I think technology along these lines would be far more terrifying than it is now.