Is Nuclear War Inevitable?

Get free access to Nebula with your CuriosityStream subscription! Visit https://curiositystream.com/secondthought The world can be a scary place. We may feel safer than we did during the cold war, but in reality the dangers we face today are perhaps even greater. We have two economic superpowers, both armed with nuclear weapons, locked in a new cold war over global economic superiority. Will we be able to avoid nuclear war, or is it only a matter of time? Is Nuclear War Inevitable? – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS music by Sam Kužel - https://samkuzel.com/ and Epidemic Sound New video every Friday! Citations and Further Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_Nuclear_Weapons#Membership https://jacobinmag.com/2018/04/nuclear-weapons-doomsday-machine-ellsberg-review http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/robock/robock_nwpapers.html https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2013EF000205 https://www.ippnw.org/programs/nuclear-weapons-abolition/nuclear-famine-climate-effects-of-regional-nuclear-war Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman Watch More Second Thought: Latest Uploads: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27 Spaaaaaace!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6v What If...: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--Cvi Popular Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxN About Second Thought: Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome! Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com