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Originally Posted by Ustwo
First we are talking more about the morale and societal issues than a full out nuclear war.
Secondly the US right now could win a nuclear war in the classic sense of winning. The Chinese haven't caught up yet, and the Russians are too poor to keep their equipment functioning. The Islamic states and North Korea can not threaten us yet.
We could obliterate our traditional enemies while suffering little in return. Our submarines are unchallenged, the soviet fleet is rotting, quite literally. Our battlefield intelligence is superior, as is the training of our troops.
If we were as evil as some would like to believe we would quite literally rule the world.
This won't last much longer, and we will end up in another cold war with a brutal communist power in the Chinese, but for now we reign supreme.
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Not that your assessment of our traditional enemies' military capabilities holds any water with anyone but you...
Anyways, even if america could nuke every country that was a potential threat there would still be hell to pay when it came to dealing with the large portion of the world that we didn't nuke. If you think the world hates us now, just wait and see how they feel about us if we ever commit nuclear genocide on select countries that we don't even have current beef with. America may not be weak militarily, but we certainly are vulnerable to economic sanctions, especially if the teams involved are us vs the world. Even moreso with the increasing rates of offshoring. In short, the reason we haven't nuked anybody is the fact that it would be a really shortsighted and counterproductive thing to do.