Eric Ross, a history graduate student, has a powerful commentary on the nuclear arms race.  See this excerpt and then see the entire commentary in the attachment.

In such a context, you might think that our collective survival instinct has proven remarkably poor, which is, at least to a certain extent, understandable. After all, if we had allowed ourselves to feel the full weight of the nuclear threat we’ve faced all these years, we might indeed have collapsed under it. Instead, we continue to drift forward with a sense of muted dread, unwilling (or simply unable) to respond to the nuclear nightmare. In a world already armed with thousands of omnicidal weapons, such fatalism—part suicidal nihilism and part homicidal complacency—becomes a form of violence in its own right.

Sincerely,

Ed

We Must End the Global Nuclear Arms Race Before It Ends Us

The question is no longer what is politically possible, but what is virtually guaranteed if we refuse to pursue the “impossible.”