Merry Arms Race

found online by Raymond

 
From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:

The people who grew up with 9/11 as their significant milestone of consciousness, or indeed, had that event occur before they were even really aware, might be more inclined to see war and violence as being a product of state and non-state actors performing acts of mass destruction at more or less close range. The threat of global thermonuclear war just wasn’t as ever-present in their minds.

The idea of an “arms race” might seem like a curious 1980s artifact–as it should.

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