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by budududuroiu 489 days ago
Taiwan almost had indigenous nukes at some point. The issue with nukes is that you want to never use them, and for that you need your nuclear doctrine to be a credible deterrent. Taiwan’s lack of credible deterrent comes from lack of nuke delivery platforms, not nukes themselves.
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If they can miniaturize fusion-boosted weapons, they may have a delivery vehicle. Their HF-2E cruise missiles are roughly comparable in size to Tomahawks, which can optionally carry nukes. The listed payload of the Taiwanese missiles is about half the mass, but who knows if that's accurate. Maybe the range would be reduced, but most of its military targets in a conflict wouldn't be far inland anyway.