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Huh, so as a civilian, the existence of the doomsday plane lowers my chance of survival because the opposition might bomb the country more, i.e. increase the li
by boppo1 2y ago
Huh, so as a civilian, the existence of the doomsday plane lowers my chance of survival because the opposition might bomb the country more, i.e. increase the likelihood my area gets hit?
- amenhotep 2y agoWell, if you take an enemy nuclear strike as given, then yes, I guess it does? But the general consensus is that nuclear bombs hitting your country at all is bad and most strategists try and optimise to avoid it happening altogether, rather than assume it's going to happen and try to make it less unpleasant. It's fairly clear that the optimal thing to do once your enemy has launched a single nuke at you is surrender unconditionally rather than retaliate, but we would probably not prefer to live in a world where launching nukes was seen as a good way to win a negotiation, so we try our best to discourage it.