Why Nuclear Weapons (sometimes) make the world Safer

[@Randomini]

As an Emutopia resident I note that Kiwiland seems to have already obliterated Tasmania in a first strike.

[@lsusr265]

Yes. This history is a source of current tensions between Emutopia and Kiwiland.

[@МаксимВыменец]

I saw somewhere this argument: to disincentivise conflict instead of incentivise it perfect nuclear weapon should: 1. Be hard to destroy with first strike (so the other side can't attack you without retaliation) 2. Be hard to use as the first strike (so the other side doesn't have to worry you will attack them first) Silos and bombers on the ground are 2, but not 1. Submarines and bombers in air are 1, but not 2. But what about space? Close orbits are neither 1 or 2. But far orbits are both!

[@lsusr265]

@@МаксимВыменец Incidentally the 1967 Outer Space Treaty banned the positioning of nuclear weapons in space. In a sci-fi setting, asteroid redirection could serve this purpose too.

[@МаксимВыменец]

@@lsusr265 Yep, I know. But maybe this treaty was stupid, actually.