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by ldng 289 days ago
oh yeah, major nuclear winter, that's the solution ... /s
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No, but it makes a first strike by Russia possible.

It's better to have a balanced number of warheads so that this isn't possible.

For this reason the US and Russia always negotiated before reducing warhead numbers bilaterally. But the EU on its own is not in the same league.