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Originally Posted by Enigma
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We are probably more under threat of nuclear war today than we were back when the Soviet Union existed.
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I would agree that there is just as good a chance of nuclear conflict in the world today, but your suggesting that the US is at more of a threat from nuclear attack from Russia today than, say, pre-Detente?
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It doesn't take rocket science to see the hostility, whether right or wrong against the US from Rissia. There is also hostility from the US to Russia. The enemies are not dead, just that they smile a lot now. Also, as Stephen Hawkings puts it, all it would take between our two countries is for one to simply mis-interpret the actions of the other and the switch could be thrown.
Another scenario that could spur this scenario is for example if the US developed a world changing technology like Nanotechnology and didn't share it. Imagine buying a perfect product on a molecular scale for pennies on the dollar. An example would be like a car - you can buy that Mercedes over there for $100K, or I can sell you this one at $10K that is perfect and doesn't need to go to the shop for a million miles and is guaranteed to never have a sqeak or rattle ever! You just destroyed the world economy overnight.
This is just one example of how a technology could cause a war like this.
-S