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		drzaiusapelord on Nov 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident reve... >I'd rather live in a world where 20 countries have 50 warheads each, then one where two countries have 4,000 warheads each. Now instead of two political leaders to worry about, you have 20. Not sure if that's what you really want.

nrb on Nov 3, 2017 [–]

Political leaders are far from the biggest worry compared to command and control of their vast nuclear arsenals. More eyes on less weapons mitigates that. After all, several nuclear weapons have gone missing by the US and several dozen are believed to have gone missing in the Soviet Union.

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