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Admiral Rickover, the father of the American nuclear navy, testified to congress that he thought we would probably destroy ourselves and hardly anyone is more expert than he was.

  Senator PROXMIRE. What do you think is the prospect, 
  then, of nuclear war?

  Admiral RICKOVER. I think we will probably destroy 
  ourselves. So what difference will it make? Some new
  species will arise eventually; it might be wiser 
  than we are.
https://www.jec.senate.gov/reports/97th%20Congress/Economics...



Rickover said that in 1982, four years before our global nuclear stockpile peaked at 70,000 warheads [1]. Today, that number is closer to 12,000 [2].

If we'd continued accumulating nukes at the rate we were in 1982, yes, we might today have the power to render the Earth uninhabitable to human life.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2968/062004017

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-weapons




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