<i>If the United States and the Soviet Union flail away at each other at any time between now and 2019, there is absolutely no use to discussing what life will be like in that year. Too few of us, or of our children and grand· children, will be alive then for there to be any point in describing the precise condition of global misery at that time.</i><p>A lot of the people I work with are too young to wrap their brains around the idea that the vast majority of people were <i>really scared</i> of nuclear war. They've grown up with a mindset that, in spite of 9/11, war happens somewhere else to someone else.<p>This is largely because of the success of the military's "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" strategy. But at the same time, it's reduced the notion of war to a video game, and empathy has gone by the wayside.<p><i>By 2019, we will be back on the moon in force</i><p>Oops.