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Manhattan Project scientists underweighted institutional responses such as second-strike forces and mutually assured retaliation when judging the likelihood of catastrophic nuclear war.

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war Armed conflict and preparing for it: military spending, alliances, and what changes when machines are in the loop.

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  1. Tyler Cowen

    Economist at George Mason University

    They tended to underweight the endogenous response of political and military institutions to the catastrophe—the emergence of second-strike forces, elaborate command systems, crisis management, and above all mutually assured retaliation.

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    ↗The excess pessimism of early nuclear bomb designersmarginalrevolution.com

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