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The Last Nuclear Arms Treaty Expires Today (www.youtube.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Another link that's difficult to categorize. There's little opinion here, so this seems like the correct placement.

At any rate, this is roughly an hour going through the history of nukes and treaties, and if you don't already know of Tom Nicholas, you really should.

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[–] Paragone@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Rees

pointed-out, in 1 of his books, that WHEN

a) nuclear-weapons are proliferating
b) there is no control on whom it is, their nature, who has them, or who inherits them, or who takes-possession of them, &
c) enmities abound, globally,

THEN .. sooner-or-later they're GOING to get used.

It's irrational to believe otherwise.

This has been inevitable all along.

There is 1 pending upside, though: IF nukes are all engineered to be presuming GPS/GLONASS/etc, AND KesslerSyndrome has been enforced before "the button" gets pressed, THEN they should refuse-to-launch, due to their dependencies, the nav-sats, not being the help they should be.

So, our surviving the nuclear dimension of WW3, might actually come down to some country smashing another country's nav-sats, & the shrapnel from that taking ALL of them to smithereens, thereby taking the missiles' nav-brain out with it.

Typical ideological-nationalistic idiocy.

"it was the mistakes they made, all stacked atop each-other, which saved their species" is exactly what the galactic-news might report, later this decade.

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