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One key difference nuclear weapons make is that it is much easier to see beforehand how catastrophic a war would be.
by woodandsteel 10y ago
One key difference nuclear weapons make is that it is much easier to see beforehand how catastrophic a war would be.
- restalis 10y agoMass destruction (chemical) weapons existed and were employed in WW1. You'd expect that WW2 should have consisted mostly by aerial bombardment with much improved chemical (and other kind of horribly effective) weapons, yet what happened was an abstinence from both sides, respecting a mutual agreement of resorting to conventional weapons only. (Well, on battlefields at least, and only if discounting U.S. show off with nuclear ones at a moment when the war's conclusion was clear already.)