[njharman]

I think your post is sarcastic, given last sentence. But if not, or for readers who ...

> A nukes only military is so cheap and effective.

If it was effective, we'd see them in reality.

[asdff]

I feel like the only thing stopping it is political taboo. If the U.S. actually supplied tactical nukes for the bay of pigs invasion as planned I think we would see nuke only armies today. As it stands the only time it was used in combat was WWII and no one has ripped the bandaid off diplomatically speaking yet using them in another situation.

[tablespoon]

> If the U.S. actually supplied tactical nukes for the bay of pigs invasion as planned I think we would see nuke only armies today.

IMHO, we would see post-nuke armies... after all the nuclear wars destroyed the industrial capacity required to build more nukes.

[chasd00]

with tactical nukes there would be no difference between nuke-only and regular militaries. You can dial down a nuke yield to be equivalent of a 2k lb HE bomb. Now you're right back to a regular military only, now, every bomb is a nuke instead of only a few.