> Because you're allowed to tactical nuke your own country (IANAL) This isn't really a domain where the written rules are important in the sense that you can l

> Because you're allowed to tactical nuke your own country (IANAL) This isn't really a domain where the written rules are important in the sense that you can lawyer your way out of trouble with some textual technicality. There's no relevant court and your actions are judged by your opposition, who might consider what you say in defense of yourself but might also decide you're too dangerous to live, let alone listen to. When surface penetrating nuclear warheads are hollowing out your government bunkers in a retaliatory decapitation strike, your pleas of "but the laws and treaties didn't say I couldn't" will fall on deaf ears. Of course, maybe NATO would decide that the risk of ignoring you is less than the risk of taking you out, as they presently do, but similarly you need to consider if the risk of ignoring whatever provocation prompted you to consider using nukes is less than the risk of retaliation. It's a game of estimating risk and guessing what the other guy might do, not lawyering over laws and treaties before some sort of judge that cares about technicalities and can somehow restrain your opponent but not you.