That's you. Thankfully, China or Russia doesn't think people like you will be making the nuclear call. Which is one thing the anti-nuke, give-peace-a-chance cr

That's you. Thankfully, China or Russia doesn't think people like you will be making the nuclear call. Which is one thing the anti-nuke, give-peace-a-chance crowd has always been absolutely stupid about. The entire idea of nuclear deterrence is predicated on continuously issuing as rabid statements as possible about your willingness to use nuclear weapons in retaliation for any strike (while simultaneously issuing statements that you never intend to use nukes as a first strike). Whether you would or would not actually use them, in the emphasis of Strangelove, it is essential that your potential adversaries have no suspicions that you might not use them. So any statements that don't sound like a madman with his or her finger on the button, just waiting for a chance to nuke the foreigners are actually incredibly dangerous and destabilizing (regardless of actual beliefs).