Annie Jacobsen: belief

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…You didn’t expect me to be funny, or you didn’t expect that I liked Kanye West? I just didn’t expect the fantastic pop culture reference when we are talking about the possible end of the world. I think that I’m going to really insist on saying no human should have that power or have to make that decision. Which is why, even though it’s a conundrum, a puzzle, a Gordian knot, if you will — sure nuclear weapons aren’t going away tomorrow, but the movement toward disarmament makes us all safer. If that begins tomorrow or later today, the chances of the six-minute window arising reduces drastically. But as we move toward disarmament, don’t either we — or some other countries in that process — lose second-strike capability? And that makes the situation more dangerous. I’m very glad Israel has second-strike capability now, and they didn’t a few decades ago.…

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