Did the reality of
nuclear warfare change the nature of the individual act?
Not exact matches
What has
changed is my view of
nuclear warfare and
nuclear weapons.
Even the big threats —
nuclear warfare or an ecological catastrophe, perhaps following from climate
change — aren't existential in the sense that they would wipe us out entirely.
By the end of World War II, coastal defense had
changed dramatically and the artillery system was replaced by modern air power, amphibious
warfare, and
nuclear weapons.
• If global civilization can not continue to adjust to these climate
changes in an evolutionary manner, then revolutionary means (economic depression, famine, mass migration, unilateral seizure of resources, unilateral efforts at geo - engineering) leave us and our descendants vulnerable to perpetual
warfare, with ever - increasing chances of unrestrained
nuclear exchanges.
If there are very low probabilities of catastrophic climate
change, scientific experiments going seriously wrong,
nuclear or biological
warfare that wipes us all out, and if these very low probabilities are sustained over thousands of years then we have had it.