Less than during the Cold War (then there were more than 60 1000 of them), but adequate to “reset” civilization respective times. 2 giants have the most nukes: Russia – 5459 heads and the United States – 5177. These 2 countries hold almost 90% of the world's arsenal. The remainder of them are small slobs, though it gets crowded. China already has about 600 heads (a year before – 500) and they are clearly accelerating. France and the United Kingdom – 290 and 225 pieces respectively. They are followed by India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. Each with its own fears and ambitions, each convinced that without an atomic baton would be more susceptible to attack. due to the fact that atomic weapons act like a peculiar insurance policy: the scarier you get, the little you pull it out of a drawer. But the policy is increasing. And the planet is dismantling the alarm system.
The arms control treaties go to the trash can. Therefore, in the name of security, we are producing more and more risks. Ukraine is the best proof of the atomic strength of the "polis". She erstwhile had the 3rd largest atomic arsenal in the world, but gave it in exchange for safety guarantees. The paper took everything, the reality – as it is, everyone sees. From now on, we look at the atom as something much more effective than a signature. Now we add matches to the powder barrel: artificial intelligence and quantum computers, counting faster than people, making decisions in fractions of seconds, without hesitation. If 1 day the algorithm finds the attack likely, it will leave no area for human intuition. And sometimes she's the 1 who's saving us. On 26 September 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislaw Petrov sat on work at the russian Early informing Center. The strategy has shown the launch of American missiles. The procedure was clear: alarm, report, atomic response.
But Petrov thought something was wrong. 5 rockets? From 1 base? It makes no sense – he decided and did not study the attack. He was right: it was a device error. If he were deciding the algorithm then, present we might not be telling the communicative anymore. If 1 day there is no place for a man who says, “Relax, it does not agree”, even the best policy will not aid us.
