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If nuclear weapons are such a powerful detterent to a poorly-armed asymmetric insurgency, then why do you think the US didn't decide to use nuclear weapons in A

• incomingpain 4y ago
  >If nuclear weapons are such a powerful detterent to a poorly-armed asymmetric insurgency, then why do you think the US didn't decide to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan/Iraq? Yes I do think so. Nuclear weapons are a VERY powerful deterrence. As we see, then instead of a primary name vs primary name war. It's now primary name vs minor, minor, minor, insurgency, minor. Why did they never use nukes in middle east? Because they ratified the geneva protocol in 75 and can't use them. Foreign vs Domestic consequences of using nukes is similar but not the same.