re: Most of us probably owe our existence to a pair of Soviets who refused to push a button

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The problem is most people alive today weren’t alive during a real war between powers. They don’t know the horrors of it so they don’t work as hard to prevent it. It’s just a story in history to them

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And, to the ignorant, green, twenty-somethings who are working in the White House for this administration, it may not even be "just a story in history." To folks their age, in our times, history begins on their birth. If it happened before they were born it's just a nice myth told by their grandparents and screenwriters.