The united states and russia are both building new weapons of mass destruction. Between them, at something likea eight thousand nuclear is left. That's enough wepons to attack every city with al over kill ante kila all over chill. Yona, sovet on ended in 19 92. You know, sis, about six years after we started building down these weapons. And so i think the build down of weapons is what trigger did. But osan said there were lots of other things happening. There was very costly to keep building these weapons and other other things.
Are advanced civilizations doomed to destroy themselves? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore the Cold War, The Drake Equation, and nuclear winter hypothesis with producer of Cosmos and Carl Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan and atmospheric scientist Brian Toon.
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