• kromem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There is a key difference though.

    The A bomb wasn’t a technology that as the arms race advanced enough would develop the capacity to be anywhere between a conscientious objector to an usurper.

    There’s a prisoner’s dilemma to arms races that in this case is going to lead to world powers effectively paving the path to their own obsolescence.

    In many ways, that’s going to be uncharted territory for us all (though not necessarily a bad thing).