• SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It is mutually-assured destruction. The idea is that there are enough nukes to end all life on earth. Because if there are that many nukes, then nobody would ever use them.

    That’s how the US and USSR came up with these figures when they were disarming at the end of the Cold War.