☢️ Nuclear Football 🏈
What is the natural consequence of violence?
Do you know how many nuclear missiles are pointed at your current position?
Do you care?
Do you think about what percentage of your taxes are spent on preparing warheads?
Do you understand how those systems could be used?
The Nuclear Football is the briefcase with the launch codes & computers.
Which one of these briefcases is it? Take a guess.
Here is how it works when there is a smooth transition of power:
This video shows the football riding around with various presidents:
If you are reading this in a country with safe borders.
And you have never been to war to defend your country.
This is why.
Humanity has gone from sticks & fire to atomic intercontinentals in around 1000 years.
We have (relative) peace because global war is now unthinkable.
But these people are thankable. I am grateful for a lifetime where I do not have to go to war.
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