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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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I am not sure if you understand what a nuclear war would mean.
If a mere 50 bombs (of the arsenal of 10,000 aimed at the US) where to get through, the US would be anhiliated. The US may well anhialate their enemies at the same time, but is mutual destruction a victory?
And the Russian nuclear weapons are still well maintained (that they are all rusting away is a myth), China, has enough weapons to obliterate America five times over, and America could obliterate the whole Euroasian continent... this is what nuclear war means.
It puts me in mind of the general, who when talking about MAD said "if there's only two Americans left, and only one of those Russian bastards, thats means we've won!"