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> No one will detonate a thousand weapons unless they are declaring total war. Or if they believe (rightly or wrongly) that the other nuclear power has declare
by rflrob 9y ago
> No one will detonate a thousand weapons unless they are declaring total war.
Or if they believe (rightly or wrongly) that the other nuclear power has declared total war. There's been a number of false alarms that have been successfully ignored, but what if one of those false alarms came during the Cuban missile crisis or immediately after the invasion of Afghanistan?
- rangibaby 9y ago> Cuban missile crisis US dropped depth charges on a USSR submarine and the latter thought WWIII had begun. Three people had to agree to use nuclear weapons and two did.