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It's interesting that this surprises you. Mutually Assured Destruction might have been penned by Kahn but the idea goes back to Nobel and dynamite. We've long suspected that if we have the ability to kill everybody, we'll kill everybody and the threat of that balances things out. Probably says something about my school but for a few years we played a game in social studies in which teams of three were given "nations" with a varying number of nuclear weapons. If you were given none, you might make it through to the end of the game. If you had so much as one, somebody took you out because Jesse hates James. Regardless, once things went hot everybody got their birds in the air so that at least they felt like they gave back.