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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
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!"
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I think you underestimate the US and over esimate everyone else.
We could launch a strike in such a manner that they would have almost no time to react. Having a bomb doesn't matter if it can't reach its target.
Cruise missiles can be armed with nuclear weapons, and are almost undetectable.
We wouldn't say 'Hello world, hello this thing on, ok listen we are going to launch our nuclear missiles today, so if you could all get ready that would be great.'
It would be more of a 'Did you hear something?' *BOOM*.
We are also voluntarily not arming ourselves in space. We could change that at any time and again, no one could stop us. In that case you can eliminate the 'Did you hear something' moment.