JoshuaZ comments on Stanislav Petrov Day - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 01 October 2011 12:18:23PM 2 points [-]

Not really. At the time negotiations were already quite problematic. And if anything it had the opposite effect. The extreme right became discredited for a few years. They only made a gradual move back into something resembling respectability when negotiations didn't achieve peace for another decade or so.