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140 - The Future is Fiat | Noah Smith (Noahpinion)
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Is China and the US to Come to Blows Over Taiwan Effectively?
The Soviet Union had 10 times as many nukes as modern Russia, enough to roast not just America but the whole planet. But they nevertheless built up a giant conventional army. Conventional deterrence was still important. And so as it will be today, can I ask you another point on this? You know, that's when our nuclear arsenal is peaked. If you just do a Google image search for nuclear arsenals, you will see how much things have actually come down and how crazy it was in the 80s. That was 1983. As you said earlier, what a thing that was avoided at that point in time, absolute worldwide destruction.
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