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I have to disagree. Nationalism is NOT dead. If it were, we'd have a heck of a time getting new recruits and we would have ran out of re-enlistees a long time ago.
As far as nuclear disarming, it would be as effective as the Pope outlawing the crossbow. Few powers can afford to live without it. Hopefully it'll never again come to be used, but the ultimate trump card retaliation is hard to ignore. Much may have been made about MAD, arguably too much, however in the parallel universe of no-nuclear weapons it's hard to imagine the massive standoff not coming to blows.
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