• Chaos@lemmy.world
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      26 minutes ago

      It took two nukes for Japan to wave the white flag. Do we really need 5,000+ nukes for anything? France has 290 and UK has 225. Thats enough to wipe one or multiple countries clean off of the map without any form of surrender.

    • diffusive@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      In the game of nukes you don’t really need many.

      You can destroy the world just so many times.

      The rest is just for showing who has it bigger (the arsenal)

    • Resand@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      A lot of that is because rest of NATO is under US umbrella. Not like nukes are high tech at this point. Most of Europe could get nukes real fast if they wanted, but everyone has been better served by it being to many Nuclear Powers up to this point

    • Hackworth@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      But are we bringing nukes to a biological warfare… umm… party? Or hell, AI drones/nanobots?