It annoys me that this isn't more of a wake up call to governments and international bodies in general.
Yes North Korea testing a small nuke is bad and deserves attention, but what about the thousands of objects in space that come close to our planet and could generate nuclear weapon type yields (or much much worse) at completely random points on the globe?
Nah let's cut funding in order to build new creative things to kill each other with.
Edit: Yeah, I enjoyed Lucifer's hammer quite a bit.
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