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and even that less expansive claim is difficult to prove. the post-WWII geopolitical situation was shaped by the discovery and use of atomic weaponry, who knows how the US and USSR would have behaved in the absence of that discovery? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 11, 2019 Hibernated

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folks, ben isn't making the argument that "nuclear weapons prevented worse conflicts from breaking out during the 20th century", he's making the argument that they are the single most important invention for reducing human mortality. which, like, have you heard of antibiotics? — PolitiTweet.org

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in order for the counterfactual to work, you would have to have an idea of the scale of conflict post-1945 or so in the absence of the development of atomic weapons, and that's just impossible conjecture to make. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 11, 2019 Hibernated