HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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« on: August 04, 2015, 11:21:31 AM » |
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I believe we will never see a state actor use a nuclear weapon again precisely because the world got to see the effects of nuclear warfare at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It's devastating to think about, but a bomb has to be used at least once before nuclear deterrence can work. And in the vacuum of the war, it seems like these bombings had a lower death count than what we would have seen with a land invasion. So it's win-win, as morally perverted as that sounds.
But you've got to have that death and destruction first for the world to know that these are weapons that should never be used. A mushroom cloud on an island would not suffice.
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