Reply #11: Imagine Adolf Hitler having nuclear weapons [View All]

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Or some other lunatic who really thinks that the world should be destroyed as soon as he/she falls from power. That's one part of the nightmare scenario.

The other part of the nightmare scenario is that many other countries have either no history or a very short history of peaceful transfer of power from one government to the next. If a country is so politically unstable that there's a revolution or a military coup every few years, there is no way to be certain who will end up with their finger on the button a little further down the line - - whether you'll end up with a Nelson Mandela or an Osama bin Laden.

Whether that's outrageous euro-centric biogtry or just common sense is a matter for debate.