A nuclear war could take place in more ways than you might think, sparked
by any number of occurrences from pure accident to an intentional strike.
"The probability of a nuclear war". Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the machine gun
declared, "only a general who was barbarian would send his men to certain
death against the concentrated power of my new gun", but send them they did.
His machine gun often mowed down tens of thousands of men in one day.
History shows the folly in hoping that each new, more destructive weapon will not be used
and yet we dare to hope that this time it will be different.