>Bombing a major country into submission is very likely a humanity ending event WW2 disagrees, I think. You don't need to carpet the place with nukes - a few w

>Bombing a major country into submission is very likely a humanity ending event WW2 disagrees, I think. You don't need to carpet the place with nukes - a few well-placed, climatically-harmless strikes will do. Will it trigger a species-ending global nuclear war? Maybe - but very likely not. Maybe people are smart enough not to end the species over such a thing. Maybe other people are smart enough to abuse that fact.