Welcome to Ramin’s Space, the newsletter from journalist and writer Ramin Skibba, which you can read about here. If you like it, please consider subscribing and sharing this post. If you’re already a subscriber, thank you for your support! As someone who grew up before the end of the Cold War and watched movies like Dr. Strangelove and WarGames, talk of building and deploying nukes always deeply disturbs me. Nuclear proliferation and brinkmanship easily can lead to their use — they’ve already been used twice, after all. Even a “small” nuclear war would be disastrous and more deadly than COVID-19 ever was. And a massive war could result in a “nuclear winter” engulfing the planet, as Carl Sagan and others warned.
How to make nuclear policy less insane
How to make nuclear policy less insane
How to make nuclear policy less insane
Welcome to Ramin’s Space, the newsletter from journalist and writer Ramin Skibba, which you can read about here. If you like it, please consider subscribing and sharing this post. If you’re already a subscriber, thank you for your support! As someone who grew up before the end of the Cold War and watched movies like Dr. Strangelove and WarGames, talk of building and deploying nukes always deeply disturbs me. Nuclear proliferation and brinkmanship easily can lead to their use — they’ve already been used twice, after all. Even a “small” nuclear war would be disastrous and more deadly than COVID-19 ever was. And a massive war could result in a “nuclear winter” engulfing the planet, as Carl Sagan and others warned.