A country doesn't acquire nukes to use them. They acquire them to freeze specific layers of conflict. Actually using them among peers invites annihilation.

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mensetmanusman 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Statistics says even if it’s true, unintended use probability sky rockets risking nuclear winter.

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PeterHolzwarth 14 hours ago | parent [-]

It turns out (and I didn't realize this until I looked back into it just a few years ago) that the 70s/80s concept of nuclear winter is discredited and believed not to be something that would arise from a global thermonuclear holocaust.

	▲	amoss 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		On the contrary, modern research shows that the effects would be more severe and long-lasting: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2006jd00...

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swagasaurus-rex 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Annihilation, that would make a good square on the bingo board