Confession: I have long believed that Nuclear Weapons are the real-world’s closest allegory to the law of fiction known as “Chekov’s Gun”.
Chekov’s gun postulates that if, in a television or movie, you show a gun sitting on a table, then at some point somebody must fire that gun, otherwise there is no point in showing it. If the gun is worth showing to the audience, then at some point it must become integral to the story.
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