[mikeash]

“In the cold war people built concrete bunkers in their basement for fear of a nuclear Armageddon.”

It’s not like this threat went away. People just stopped paying attention to it.

[chrisco255]

Agreed, it just doesn't seem imminent anymore. Mutually assured destruction seems to keep the whole thing in check.

[mikeash]

It will until it doesn’t. What troubles me is that it’s hard to tell whether the risk is 1% per year or 0.000001% per year.