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I could see some scenario where a semi-successful counterforce strike only takes out the nuclear forces at the expense of effectively emptying the other nation'
by tomatotomato37 8y ago
I could see some scenario where a semi-successful counterforce strike only takes out the nuclear forces at the expense of effectively emptying the other nation's stocks, which would still leaves plenty of military and civilian infrastructure standing and ready to fight, but it'll definitely be unlikely.
- simplicio 8y agoChinese nuclear doctrine is just to maintain a large enough arsenal to ensure survival of enough weapons in the event of a first strike to wipe out an adversaries major cities. The idea being that rather then spend the huge extra amounts of money necessary to ensure total obliteration of the enemy, its enough of a deterrent just to guarantee an attacker would lose a large percentage of their population/economic capital.