"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The MAD Myth
Submitted by mhstahl on Sat, 2012-08-11 00:00
"Lending superficial credence to this idea is the fact the world has not yet been incinerated in a nuclear conflagration. This fact has been cited as vindication of the U.S. government's decision to amass a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons during the Cold War, and it is still used today to justify retention of that arsenal."
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