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by exe34 868 days ago
The only two actors capable of inflicting gigadeath are still the US and Russia. Both of them are ultimately run by oligarchs who want to remain alive, and have a population to lord over.

The actors who are genuinely irrational don't really have the number of nukes to do more than cause ~megadeath. This sort of thing would only happen once and then the actors would cease to exist.