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Something very interesting (and scary) to think about

dracphelan
What has changed in the past few years to lead us to this place. I don’t think it is all on one side or the other.
Also, who benefits from the deterioration of relations between Russia and the USA/NATO? I know that it helps Putin by giving an external threat/boogieman for him to blame Russian problems on. It could help various groups (both political and economic) in the West.

Nuclear Specter Returns: ‘Threat of War Is Higher than in the Cold War’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE
The Ukraine crisis has dramatically worsened relations between NATO and Russia. With cooperation on nuclear security now suspended and the lack of a “red telephone,” experts at the Munich Security Conference warn any escalation in tensions could grow deadly.

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  • It's much more likely now, because Chernobyl and its aftermath have shown us that fallout and mutations aren't quite as horrific as the nuclear apocalypse stories made them out to be.

    So if you're President and you have one nuke somehow hit a US city, do you launch the entire apocalypse in retaliation? Or are you more limited? Nations, and more importantly, governments, can survive "limited." And possibly come out the other side of it with some objective or other achieved.

    So the question is, can you get one nuke past the defenses and onto our soil without us seeing it coming? Or if there's one incoming nuke targeting, say, Los Angeles or Detroit or Anchorage, what do you launch in retaliation?

    With mutual destruction no longer assured, a limited nuclear exchange becomes thinkable–and thus inevitable.

    I don't like this answer, but knowing how wars happen and looking at human history, this is the only answer I can reach. It's not a question of if but when.

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