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Isn't having nuclear weapons around actually a deterrent to war because of mutually assured destruction?

• mac01021 9y ago
  It certainly does not deter the USA or Russia or China from invading Panama or Latvia or Burma.
  • GhostVII 9y ago
    But it deters the USA from invading Russia or China
• pacaro 9y ago
  I don't believe that Soviet era military doctrine recognized mutually assured destruction.