[swagasaurus-rex]

This is just another square in my world war three bingo board. Sits pretty close to breaking the nuclear taboo square.

[PeterHolzwarth]

A country doesn't acquire nukes to use them. They acquire them to freeze specific layers of conflict. Actually using them among peers invites annihilation.

[mensetmanusman]

Statistics says even if it’s true, unintended use probability sky rockets risking nuclear winter.

[PeterHolzwarth]

It turns out (and I didn't realize this until I looked back into it just a few years ago) that the 70s/80s concept of nuclear winter is discredited and believed not to be something that would arise from a global thermonuclear holocaust.

[amoss]

On the contrary, modern research shows that the effects would be more severe and long-lasting: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2006jd00...

[swagasaurus-rex]

Annihilation, that would make a good square on the bingo board