Nuclear War Only Happens Once

Nuclear War Only Happens Once

Iraqi Kurdistan is militarily safer than Russia or the US. That is what I told my security studies teacher eight years ago when I was a freshman in college. My argument was simple: We don’t have thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at us ready to launch, while every sizable city in the US or Russia does.  He agreed, but reminded me that their militaries are also far better than ours. Russia, he said, increasingly relies on its nuclear weapons b…