The Secret History of Nuclear War by Bertrand Russell

I was wondering about humankind's ability to stay on a knife's edge of concern and alert generation after generation. I think maybe after thinking about this that it might almost be an evolutionary help that we don't continually worry about nuclear weapons, he says. And yet if we don't, do we risk presidential campaigns where we're talking about minutia? How can you keep something this important and this almost impossible in your mind to imagine thing? You know, I'm 65 years old. I'm 50. Well, maybe I've got another 15 years. Maybe I. Okay. But what happens if we have a spate of slow-witted leaders and a spate of bad luck? That