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Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

Who, if anyone, will survive

to read our words?

Will they be found in an archive...

reductio in absurdum,

read in a nuclear winter-proofed bunker

by the very one who

mocked, maligned

and slandered

the prophet

who said

that

they

would

not

press

the

button,

on the grounds that the deterrent was not a deterrent?

 

 

 

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Holocaustnuclear winter

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Comments

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Mon 6th Feb 2023 10:43

A bit of a theme developing, Stephen....what with hard frosty uns and cock-ups😊

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Stephen Gospage

Mon 6th Feb 2023 09:12

The cock-up theory is the most plausible, and dangerous. Thanks, Uilleam.

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