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Warhead is incoming, US retaliates, its adversaries retaliate, we’re all dead. If you think that wouldn’t happen, then you have to believe the US would accept
by adriand 1y ago
Warhead is incoming, US retaliates, its adversaries retaliate, we’re all dead.
If you think that wouldn’t happen, then you have to believe the US would accept a nuclear strike on one of its population centers and respond with conventional force and/or law enforcement. I am not confident!
- dekhn 1y agoI was responding to the "single nuke kills everybody" statement. I didn't say anything about MAD. Modern nuclear strategy does not aim to use nuclear weapons to immediately kill everybody in the US. We moved away from really big payloads towards smaller independent payloads with better targeting precision, along with greatly reducing the size of the stockpile.