I would agree with you on the current situation. It would be nice if the US did not have to nuke anyone if Japan or Germany were invaded. WWII ended a long time

I would agree with you on the current situation. It would be nice if the US did not have to nuke anyone if Japan or Germany were invaded. WWII ended a long time ago and almost everyone who fought in that war is dead. Maybe the occupation should end also. I guess my post was part of a bigger idea about reducing the need for US overseas occupation of the Axis powers and its huge military industrial complex. Most countries could have a small number of nuclear ICBMs, well defended but transparently held. A little shooting among neighbors would still happen like with China, India, and Pakistan today, but such a setup might reduce the probability of a large nuclear exchange causing a nuclear winter while still preventing the horrible conventional world wars that seem to happen when nuclear weapons don't exist. It would be nice if nuclear weapons could move to a tit-for-tat posture instead of MAD. I think the tail risk for a MAD strategy is highly underestimated by almost everyone.