<div dir="ltr">Over a certain amount, there is no difference, as it would be enough to ruin the world whether it was 1000 or 10000 bombs. What IS different is the delivery methods (like 'hypersonic' missiles,) which are being improved all the time, as well as delivery platforms (like submarines.) As well, the number of countries with nuclear weapons have increased since 1962. As well, there are now multiple states with nukes who are not party to the NPT. As well, there are likely hundreds to thousands of pilfered cold-war warheads in the hands of god knows who. And yes, the leaders are crazier than ever before. I would say we are much worse off right now than we ever were in '62.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 7:02 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 5:23 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <</span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Now, there is an active threat to all countries in the world, all the time, many times more severe than the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis is dog shit compared to the state of nuclear armament today.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">In 1962 the USA had 6,300 Megatons worth of H-bombs, and the USSR had about 3000. The Hiroshima bomb had a yield of about .01 megatons and it killed at least 100,000 people. Today all the world's nuclear weapons stockpiles com<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">bined</span> equal to about 5000 Megatons, that dog shit still smells but only 5/9 as bad<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> so things have improved</span>, although I must admit that in 1962 neither Kennedy <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">n</span>or Khrushchev was as stupid or ignorant as Donald Trump.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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