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Isn't it a common thing to do in a war scenario to cut out the enemy's supplies? IIRC the brits did this a lot to the germans in WW2 with air bombing runs. If m
by makmanalp 10y ago
Isn't it a common thing to do in a war scenario to cut out the enemy's supplies? IIRC the brits did this a lot to the germans in WW2 with air bombing runs. If most power in the world switches to being nuclear eventually, doesn't that seem like a likely target?
If you mean that people wouldn't escalate that far, that's a fickle thing to depend on! Saddam used nerve gas, even though there's treaties against that stuff. I guess it's a good thing that a lot of us live in a part of the world where the thought of war on the homeland is inconceivable, but I don't think it's that remote an idea. I'm from Turkey, which is a semi-developed country where conflict and bombings happen with some regularity, and nuclear power plants are being seriously discussed. So I hope that gives a bit more context to my concerns.
- JamesBarney 10y agoI'm not arguing things would not escalate that far. I'm arguing that things would not escalate so far that people are doing bombing runs on each others nuclear reactors without escalating to the point that nuclear weapons are used. At which point the damage from a cracked reactor seems minuscule in comparison.