We have the test case for this. When one power had nukes and no one else did the...

77pt77 · 2025-03-02T01:54:51 1740880491

They were on Japan and plenty of people pushed for a preemptive strike on the USSR.

"John von Neumann" was a very famous and influential person defending just that.

CamperBob2 · 2025-03-02T02:00:18 1740880818

Smart guy, von Neumann. We should've listened to him.

77pt77 · 2025-03-02T02:25:31 1740882331

Converted to Catholicism in his deathbed and made serious errors in his Book on QM.

Plus all that nonsense on replicators/celular automata in later life.

Not worthy of the hype as far as I'm concerned.

A world with only the USA would have been far worse.

gunian · 2025-03-02T02:09:36 1740881376

lmao think of all the jobs the CIA would have had to cut

bad citizen don't you want all the marines and special forces to be employed?

just wow what would jesus say we both know he hates all the savages but he loves jobs more

__turbobrew__ · 2025-03-02T02:15:24 1740881724

The people of Nagisaki and Hiroshima would like a word.

Philpax · 2025-03-02T01:47:39 1740880059

famously they were very much used

rnjesus · 2025-03-02T02:15:33 1740881733

i’m pretty sure he was being sarcastic

skavi · 2025-03-02T01:46:54 1740880014

if you ignore WW2 for some reason?

gunian · 2025-03-02T01:49:45 1740880185

history is pick and choose these days the blight is spreading everywhere :(

well it was always pick and choose but i had high hopes for the tech barons sigh