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I can’t help but think that this makes nuclear conflict easier to start.

It’s a great thing but sure makes pushing that button easier if you know you can take a pill and not everyone dies.

Nuclear winter leading to crop failure and famine is still a terrifying specter. Even if there was a magical pill that made people 100% radiation proof that could be easily manufactured and distributed without any logistical problems, there would still be UNFATHOMABLE death and misery, and I think there’d still be pretty good odds that we’d go extinct.

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