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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