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A reminder that two of Western Europe's militaries are nuclear, which hardly makes them "a joke". You seem to be projecting the state of Germany's military to a
by m2fkxy 5y ago
A reminder that two of Western Europe's militaries are nuclear, which hardly makes them "a joke". You seem to be projecting the state of Germany's military to all European forces, which is... questionable.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoThe nuclear arsenals of France and the UK are a bit meager relative to Russia and the US. That doesn't mean that they can't inflict a good bit of damage but MAD isn't in play with them unless the US is backing them up with its own nuclear arsenal.
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- ascar 5y agoA combined amount of about 500 nuclear warheads sounds like enough for mutual assured destruction or even nuclear winter, no? That's enough to send two warheads to every single city with over 100k population in Russia and then there would be the Russian retaliation...
- m2fkxy 5y agoFrench (and probably British, although I know it less) doctrine is not MAD - it is to incur "unacceptable damages" to an offender. And 500-ish combined warheads sure sounds like it can achieve that.
- aluminum96 5y agoKeep in mind that most modern nuclear warheads are MIRV weapons, which dramatically amplifies the scope of the damage. These aren't Truman's nukes anymore.