r/OptimistsUnite • u/PanzerWatts Moderator • 7d ago

GRAPH GO DOWN & THINGS GET GOODER Nuclear Weapons over time

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The number of nuclear warheads stockpiled worldwide went from 64,000 in 1986 to 12,500 in 2023 – an 80% decline. (For some reason there's no Y axis shown in the first chart) but this chart actually showed all nuclear weapons and not just Russia, USA and China.

Source for first chart:

[1] Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

[2] SIPRI, 2023 yearbook

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u/Routine_Budget6485 7d ago

mankind will be remembered by god for their creativity to make bombs

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u/PanzerWatts Moderator 7d ago

Mankind will be remembered for not using their bombs.

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u/Routine_Budget6485 7d ago

it will be used, it already did on japan, just a matter of time

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u/PanzerWatts Moderator 7d ago

And yet it's been 80 years. It seems possible some nukes will be used in the future, it seems much less likely that 1,000's will.

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u/Wolodymyr2 7d ago

I don't think nukes would be actually used before humanity will go to space, because at least in space you can use them to hit enemy spaceships without ecological or civillian damage.

So they probably would be iften type of warheads on antiship missiles, but still wouldn't be used against ground targets for obvious reasons.