24 May 2024 - arms races

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Walking on your hands is tiring, but apparently running on them is no problem. Arms races outlast legs races by decades. Mutual Assured Destruction turned out to be a useless theory. It predicted we'd end with "Now that I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds, want to play a game of pachisi?"

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