AI and the End of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’

Published on February 15, 2024


What happens when nations no longer fear retaliation for a nuclear strike?

When the first atom bomb dropped on Japan, the world changed. For the first time, mankind had the capability to erase entire nations and even humanity itself.

Since then, though dozens of far more destructive weapons have been tested, they have never been used in war. Why? It was not love toward neighbor. It was fear of “mutually assured destruction”—the probability that a nuclear strike would meet with nuclear retaliation.

This fear, however, could now be overcome.

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