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by cguess 15 days ago
Before discussing anything related to nuclear missiles *[Command and Control by Eric Schlosser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book)) should be required reading.

More missiles do not make the world safe, and due to human fallacy it almost always make us less safe.

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> anything related to nuclear missiles

This article isn’t about nuclear-tipped missiles outside a historical context.

Well There’s Your Problem, a podcast with slides , covered this recently : https://youtu.be/NJAgvXH5H20?si=OLMJVhOPT40yzHDN
"The world" is very abstract...

Iran got invaded. North Korea didn't and won't. Cuba might.

Guess what those 2 countries that are part of the world don't have that the 3rd does...

And the US having 30,000 (or whatever absurd number) makes the world safer?
Please read my comment again...