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by rwallace 4191 days ago
I would like to share your optimism. But then I read about things like the US nuclear launch codes being set to 00000000 for quite a few years, or an incident when survival versus Armageddon depended on the judgment of one man [1], and I have to conclude that human governments should not be in possession of nuclear weapons.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov