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by kbelder 1628 days ago
I think I've mentioned this before on HN, but I remember a teacher in my highschool class in 1984, asking if we thought there would be a nuclear war with the USSR in our lifetime. I was the only kid out of 30 that didn't think there would be.

Doomsayers are sometimes correct, but usually not, and they are ever-present. And, for some reason, very appealing to many.