In a lengthy piece published earlier this week, Vox media journalist Max Fisher details how a conflict between the US and Russia could spiral into a nuclear war. As with all Vox content, it has pop-art, like this ‘choose your own adventure’ World War III flow-chart.
Fisher does brush over a few things. He says Cold War leaders considered limited nuclear war, in which tactical nuclear warheads would be used on the battlefield rather than ‘strategically’ against population centers and cities, as ‘unthinkable’ and that they thought this type of conflict was not survivable or winnable. Not all Cold War leaders …read more
