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well, although fall-out is a serious problem, technically speaking, one *has* to use nukes to get a certain yield. One only has to look at the size of the new MOAB to see how incredibly huge conventional bombs would be if they had similar yields. A nuke can be much, much smaller, making it much easier to penetrate hundreds of feet into the ground, to destroy a bunker.
Also, they'll only be used in certain essential operations, where conventional bombs aren't good enough; to destroy WMD storage facilities for example. That's a case of "them or us": if you don't destroy those things, the enemy can use them on you, killing many more people...
I'm not saying I like nukes, but they have their uses in today's world; I'd rather not see them at all, but that's rather unrealistic.
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