Nuclear weapons scare the bejeesus outta me

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Seriously, we have the capability to wipe out our own species.

Does anyone think we won't use them eventually? Our track record as a race alone indicates it will happen.

As more and more third world countries acquire them, nutjobs with a few bucks buy them on the black market from the broke former soviets, technology alone guarantees some idiot somewhere will at least build and use a "dirty bomb".

Maybe it will just be a regional conflict, most likely between Pakistan & India. Or god help a holocaust between us & the Chinese.

Does anyone even worry about this anymore? The end of the cold war is not exactly a good thing. I think the generation before ours (speaking for some of us) was terrified of it as a real possibility.

I don't worry about it on a daily basis, but my world view is different because of the very real implication. Imagine how different things might be if we didn't have the capability to almost wipe out the entire planet.

For those who grew up tall and proud...in the shadow of the mushroom cloud.