William Gibson: what we talk about, when we talk about dystopia

One way one could think of the Cold War is that instead of nuking each other, the US and USSR nuked themselves. How many bombs did we set off? The threats were to nuke cities, but we did set off lots of bombs, and leave an irradiated world. “Don’t make me nuke more of my desert testing these damn bombs, or… so help me you will regret it!”

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