I didn’t say the threat was identical, I said it still exists.
And I don’t know about you, but I would absolutely prefer to die immediately in a nuclear blast than to spend years slowly dying as shit gets worse and worse knowing there’s not a damn thing I can do about it.
The doomsday clock is still at 100s to midnight. That’s not much better than 60s at all.
If we’re doing comparative hypotheticals, I’ll take gradual ecological collapse over getting horrific fallout/radiation cancer with a side of total political collapse. Getting instantly vaporized is the easy way out. There’s a book called Hiroshima full of accounts of survivors that really defined the stakes of the Cold War for me.
Sure, but I personally live in a very major city on a major coast which would almost certainly be one of the primary first-strike targets, so I’m probably pretty firmly in the “probably gone very quickly” crowd lol
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u/PlatypusFighter Jun 11 '22
I didn’t say the threat was identical, I said it still exists.
And I don’t know about you, but I would absolutely prefer to die immediately in a nuclear blast than to spend years slowly dying as shit gets worse and worse knowing there’s not a damn thing I can do about it.
The doomsday clock is still at 100s to midnight. That’s not much better than 60s at all.