So while we no longer face the nuclear threat that we did in the 1980s, the thinking that made the wars and suffering of the 20th Century and the crises of the 21st Century possible is still in place. They’re based in the false scientific assumptions that suggest we’re somehow separate from the Earth, separate from one another, and that the nature that gives us life is based upon violent competition and survival of the strongest. They all stem from a way of thinking that has dominated much of the modern world since the beginning of the scientific era about 300 years ago. There is a common thread that links the rationale that led to the cold war and many of the crises that face us today. They spent the time, energy, and human resources to develop and stockpile somewhere in the neighborhood of 65,000 nuclear weapons – a combined arsenal with the power to microwave the Earth, and everything on it, many
During the 44 years of the Cold War, the super powers of the United States and the former Soviet Union did something that seems unthinkable to any rationally minded person today.
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