If you’re old enough to remember the NES launch in America, you’re likely old enough to remember residual hand wringing in Washington, D.C. about the so-called Cold War “missile gap.” In the 1950s and ’60s, that doctrine stated that the Soviet Union had a numeric advantage over the U.S. in terms of intercontinental missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads over the North Pole and into the backyards of the unsuspecting citizens of Anytown, U.S.A. They could instantly wipe out our entire country while leaving u incapable of sufficient retaliation, or so the theory went.
This was all nonsense, of course. Both nations had access to enough missiles to usher in a comprehensive Armageddon and put a definitive kibosh on all life on Earth. At some point, you hit diminishing returns on reducing humanity to cinders
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