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| Just because both outcomes would be bad on a scale unknown in the history of warfare does nuclear weapons not mean, Kahn insists, that one is not less bad than the other. nuclear weapons “A thermonuclear war is quite likely to be an unprecedented catastrophe for the defender,” as he puts it. “But nuclear weapons an ‘unprecedented’ catastrophe can be a far cry from an ‘unlimited’ one.” The opening chapter contains a table titled “Tragic but Distinguishable Postwar States.” It has two columns: one showing the number of dead, from two million up to a hundred and sixty million, the other showing the time required for economic recuperation, from one year up to a hundred years. At the bottom of the table, there is a question: “Will the survivors envy the dead?” Kahn believed—and this belief is foundational for every argument in his book—that the answer is no. |
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