@BowsacNoodle @transgrammaractivist @Shadowman311 @Terry @weaf I grew up absolutely convinced that, at any time, the President, or the Soviets, or any among a number of world leaders could have hit the Big Red Button, and wiped out virtually all human life throughout the world - with any potential stragglers dying from ensuing years-long nuclear winter. The MAD Narrative, as we’re all familiar with. This followed logically from the underlying Nuclear Narrative. Which is, itself, contingent upon the Standard Model of Physics - aka the Lambda-CDM / “Big Bang” Cosmology, which was/is the State-of-the-Art attempt at reconciling the observations of General Relativity, with those of Quantum Mechanics.
As time has progressed, I, along with many other interested parties, have chafed against the many unfortunate shortcomings of this Model. Nevertheless, generally, Man’s “top physicists” continue to hail its unparalleled usefulness and accuracy like some be-all-end-all accomplishment.
That said, I have reason to believe even this Model represents a feint-within-a-feint, rather than a sincere articulation of the nature of space-time, the universe and all within it. Not simply that it is wrong, but that it’s deliberately deceptive - a juggler’s trick, with which our most intelligent minds preoccupy themselves for their entire lives.
If this is true of the premises, as I have reason to believe, it is true of all dependencies upon said premises as well - including, of course, the public narrative surrounding nuclear power. It’s not merely wrong, it’s a smokescreen, a Fog-of-War Engine. Given these, I find plenty of room for doubt.