Unless humankind can break patterns of collective behavior that are older than history itself, we can expect to have a full-scale nuclear war at some point in our future. The great regional or global geopolitical rivals at any given time and place have been squaring off with each other since the first cities arose in Mesopotamia, and it seems unrealistic to imagine that this has forever ended. Despite intermittent peaceful eras, there have always been wars. But the next Total War will be the first one in which both sides possess weapons powerful enough to destroy civilization—and efficient
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