In re your historical event. Thats definitely a good one! I was thinking, its easy to just think of "deterrence" as a abstract idea politicans throw around to justify having nukes, but if you think about it, I am almost certain we'd have had a direct war with the Soviet Union at some point if it weren't for the fact that we all knew it would be the end of the world. d=
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Date: 2008-12-04 05:51 am (UTC)