The strongest mainstream case against correction keeping pace: Suleyman finds that the containment problem "has never been solved" in history, that nuclear weapons are the only partial exception and held only through cost, complexity, "decades of tough multilateral effort" and "pure luck", and that state regulation always lags ("Governments fight the last war, the last pandemic, regulate the last wave"). He concludes "there is compelling evidence that containment is not possible", while insisting it "must be possible".

Evidence 4 passages

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  while there is compelling evidence that containment is not possible

• groundsThe Coming Wave

  Governments fight the last war, the last pandemic, regulate the last wave.

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  the decades of tough multilateral effort, the fear inducing enormity of its lethal potential, and pure luck.

• groundsThe Coming Wave

  It's not that the containment problem hasn't been recognized in history. It's just that it has never been solved.

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