• ComradeSalad
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    3 months ago

    Would you not be able to simply avoid the entire possibly of small rouge states initiating a nuclear exchange by incorporating states into a mutual defense coalition akin the Warsaw Pact? The nations of the Warsaw Pact didn’t need nuclear weapons and were all perfectly protected conventionally by each other and the Soviet Unions nuclear umbrella.

    If a single nuclear weapon can cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, I don’t see how throwing a bunch of them all over the globe for anyone to have could ever be a good idea.

    • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️
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      3 months ago

      That could work, maybe. Though considering what NATO did to the Warsaw Pact after the Soviets dissolved I’m not sure if it’d be enough.