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		vkou on Feb 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Newly declassified documents reveal previously sec... > Eventually some idiot in some small country with nukes gets pissed and fires, Some idiot in a big country can do the same.

chrononaut on Feb 11, 2022 | [–]

Thank you Stanislav Petrov.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...

Shared404 on Feb 11, 2022 | [–]

But if everyone has nukes it's a lot more likely - and wouldn't a smaller country be less likely to have processes in place to stop it from happening?

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