Anonymous
07/03/2026 (Fri) 18:13
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I'll just call him Dave. I knew a glowie back in the day who actually worked with the DoD. He was a very honest, smart, family friendly dude, no doubt retired today, probably going on fishing trips like he always loved to do. Anyway, me and Dave would sometimes talk and joke about different "happenings" going on in the world many years ago (mid-2000s era). About wars in the Middle East. How government bureaucracy sucked balls. Taxation. Corruption in politics, which we saw eye to eye often, he being in the thick of it at the time. Dave never talked about anything confidential or classified, nor ever detailed exactly what he did.
At one point in our conversation the subject of nukes were brought up, at least in theory of global threats. What he said made a ton of sense to me. He said the open secret about nuclear weapons technology is WMDs were initially build to become a massive deterrent (even before used during WWII nukes were originally meant to be tested at some point to show off our supreme might to the world, "you don't want to fuck with the US!" basically). It was never meant to be used against populations. Nuclear proliferation was always a means to deter enemies from hostility and dangerous behavior. It was solely designed to keep nations in check, in line. No government really wants to use nuclear weapons which they all secretly fear. It is more or less used for psychological warfare. Sometimes it helps re-enforce sensible precaution which was the whole point having them. To deter major wars.