We are on a path to nuclear war

Fwiw, Vietnam didn’t go nuclear and that was a proxy war with the sides reversed. Lots and lots of people died. It went on for years and “rules” were followed. This can happen again.

Or, instability can result in the big boom. If so, it could have happened with any excuse.

Always have been since their invention. It's probably inevitable, unless we happen on the extremely improbable situation of having good leaders everywhere at the same time, and they decide to hand all the warheads over to UN.

> The two sides are locked in an escalatory cycle that, along current trends, will eventually bring them into direct conflict and then go nuclear, killing millions of people and destroying much of the world.

I don’t get how people can say “there’s a path to nuclear war” and also believe in MAD. Putin has a family. You mean to tell me that he’s just gonna pop some nukes off and just shrug “sorry” to his two wives and his daughters?

The nuclear clock hasn't budged a bit though.

We are also on a path to aliens