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hnthrowaway0328 on July 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future...

Nuclear weapons? They are still keeping the next world war from happening, and probably the only thing doing that, TBH.

dane-pgp on July 15, 2022 [–]

They also mean that the next world war is going to be devastating.

I think it's too early to tell if we've just replaced a medium risk of a medium scale tragedy with a low risk of an unimaginably bad tragedy.

There were two world wars last century, and we're not even a quarter of the way through this one yet.

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