Sorry, I was reacting to the Dr. Strangelove from the article, especially the "end of"[1] description. Maybe it was more obvious in the transcript? I believed it to be about MAD because who, since 2010 (Stuxnet), could plausibly believe that non-decisive[2] American offensive cyber operations are not at least a potential thing?

As written in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24522125 I don't believe everyone apparently having more offensive than defensive capability is necessarily the most stable of situations.

[1] the true end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIpTE-aHEZ0

On the "mineshaft gap": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23712008

Have you got change for 20 million people? https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/713/nuclear-war

[2] "There was too much there to move, and we knew we had to break [Chrome], burn her straight down, or she might come after us."