Weapons and hope
by Freeman J. Dyson · first published 1983
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…you think it should be when there's plenty of material for you to ground your thinking. Regarding specifically nuclear bomb shelters, read Freeman Dyson's essay at http://scilib.narod.ru/Physics/Dyson/Weapons_and_Hope/Weapon... . For the US, a nuclear shelter program could destabilize the arms race, since we would be planning to defend ourselves against Soviet attacks, giving the Soviets cause to think that we would…
on “Ask HN: Would a “National Fire Drill” save more lives than it cost?” ↗…given that parties to the (unlikely-in-any-case) political agreements have big incentives to cheat as long as they view the world in zero-sum competitive terms. As Freeman Dyson has explained in his book "Weapons and Hope", as long as the capacity to build WMDs remains they will always be a potential issue regardless of what treaties exist. The capacity to build such things eventually will always exist in an advanced technosphere.…
on “Killing Robots and Just War Theory” ↗…I would expect that is the sort of issue that Freeman Dyson too might be more concerned about than rising CO2 levels (including as he wrote a peace-exploring book about the nuclear arms race called "Weapons and Hope"). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1028642.Weapons_and_Hope "In this book, Professor Dyson explores how national decision-makers think about nuclear war, and how this isn't always well-considered…
on “Heretical thoughts about science and society (2005)” ↗