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whyaduck | karma 379 | avg karma 2.27 · 2018-10-22 18:26:28+00:00

Lockheed's involved in the maintenance (and previously, manufacture) of thermonuclear weapons. I'm pretty comfortable with my comparison.

paulddraper | karma 16686 | avg karma 1.72 · 2018-10-22 19:19:54+00:00

Thermonuclear weapons also have been the single most effective peacekeeping tool in the history of the world.

whyaduck | karma 379 | avg karma 2.27 · 2018-10-22 20:23:27

That's a remarkably confident statement that's completely unprovable.

I could just as easily posit easy international travel, world trade, mass media, democracy, and many other things as more effective than h-bombs for bringing about the relative peace of the late 20th/early 21st century.

Those particular things have the added benefit that they generally don't risk the side-effect of world annihilation.

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paulddraper | karma 16686 | avg karma 1.72 · 2018-10-22 22:59:36+00:00

> completely unprovable

Yes, it's challenging to answer with certainty.

Though "easy international travel, world trade, mass media, democracy, etc." were not invented at almost the precise moment that all-out large scale wars ("world wars") on Earth ended.

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canhascodez | karma 189 | avg karma 1.01 · 2018-10-23 02:36:03+00:00

The world came pretty close to large-scale nuclear war, actually. I'm not sure why you think that's no longer possible.

justtopost | karma 310 | avg karma 0.46 · 2018-10-23 05:35:38+00:00

So you are upset we won ww2 and think they are responsible somehow? Whats your reasoning?

whyaduck | karma 379 | avg karma 2.27 · 2018-10-23 10:34:47+00:00

Blatant straw man.

There are moral implications to building weapons of annihilation in exchange for wealth.

Also, Lockheed's role in Manhattan Project era nuclear weapons development was non-existent. And the delivery aircraft was manufactured by Boeing.

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