| > France can nuke Moscow and is still there They have second strike capabilties and a nuclear triad > North Korea caan nuke Seoul and Tokyo and is still there They have second strike capabilities and are working on nuclear triad capabilities > I wrote that they are/were in the very situation in which nuclear weapons may be desirable But unlike the nations listed above, they do NOT have a domestic ballistic missiles program, and that would take decades to build. SK and Japan both have had domestic ballistic missile development and submarine development capabilities for decades, and that's why if they wished to become a nuclear power, they could do so very quickly. Poland and Germany does not. > Relatively small countries have nukes simply to make any attempt at invasion not worth it even if everyone knows they can't "win" against the USSR/Russia/the US, anyway You can't make nukes (and the associated delivery systems) overnight. It takes decades to build the entire ecosystem. Just having a nuclear bomb isn't enough if you lack the ability to develop and manufacture ballistic missles or submarines domestically. Furthermore, as was seen in the Kargil War in 1999, nuclear weapons can fail as a deterrence for war. |