Comment by bla on 9/26 is Petrov Day · 2007-09-26T19:27:40.000Z · LW · GW

It warms my heart to finally hear people question the literal "destroy the world" concept of thermonuclear weapon trade-offs. Even Carl Sagan seemed to fall victim to that sort of rhetoric. On the other hand, perhaps the evidence suggests they really would have destroyed the world.