Comment author: RichardKennaway 29 July 2009 01:30:48PM *  13 points [-]

You are the President of the US. You make this announcement. Two years later, your spies tell you that the UK has a well-advanced nuclear bomb research programme. The world is, nevertheless, as peaceful on the whole as in fact it was in the real timeline.

Do you nuke London?

Comment author: BronecianFlyreme 10 December 2013 05:46:36AM 0 points [-]

Interestingly, it seems to me like the most convenient solution to this problem would be to find some way to make yourself incapable of not nuking anyone who built I nuke. I don't think it's really feasible, but I thought it was worth mentioning just because it matches the article so closely

Comment author: BronecianFlyreme 26 November 2013 04:32:18AM 21 points [-]

Surveyed! And for the first time, too. This survey was pretty interesting and definitely not what I expected