
Nukes and Stability
We Are Not Saved
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I Think We Need to Be Careful When We're Going Through a Transitional Period
Liberal democracies are better at fighting conventional wars, as we saw in world war two. But they don't appear to have any particular advantage when it comes to acquiring nukes. Once a country has nuks, any war it might engage in has the potential to go from a conventional war to a nuclear war. And there doesn't appear to be any great options for dealing with this eventuality.
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