'While teaching a schoolyard bully a lesson can be satisfying, it’s a crazy idea when the bully has nuclear arms and humiliating him could set off World War III.'
. “Of course, everybody is going to be worried about the possibility that you could eventually get there. But there are so many stopping points before you reach that point that, I think, you know, that is not something anyone should be worried about.”
Indeed, an accidental triggering of nuclear war — due to a false or mistaken warning signal — is the most likely way a nuclear war would begin, according to Daniel Ellsberg, author of “The Doomsday Machine” and a former nuclear war planner in the Kennedy administration. But while teaching a schoolyard bully a lesson can be satisfying, it’s a crazy idea when the bully has nuclear arms and humiliating him could set off World War III.
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