Waned - as anyone's idea of 'species sanity'? Perhaps. But US, Russian missiles *could* be flying in minutes. Right now. Out of sight.. still these devices are tested, inspected and ready to go. Lots of them, even given retirement of a token few Model-Ts with dirty Tritium charges. NOVA spent an hour or so with Russian Missileers, about a year ago.. (First ever 'inteview' with these folks)

Yeah.. probably spasm-war is pretty much trumped by the quality of instant communications. Probably. But once adrenaline passes into toxic levels: what would You bet, based on just the past century's overall "decision quality" ? Then throw in the confounding 2 words, Middle East.


Ashton