Have these people heard of “deterrence”?
Where did this suddenly come from? Proposals to eliminate our land-based missiles? Reduce our arsenal? This is the first I’ve heard of this.
I am not a nuclear engineer or anything. But logically, nuclear war is a non-winner in just about ANY scenario.
China is not going to start a nuclear war. They have billions of mouths to feed and even if they won they would have millions of 25-35 year old males who would be hungry in short order. 25-35 year old males without women is bad enough—without food would be intolerable.
Russia does not have the economic power to field a large army. If they shot off nukes, they would need a large army. They are not going to go toe to toe with NATO when they are a medium sized economic power. It just isn’t going to happen.
The Paks and Indians right now are the hot spot. Neither of them want to be annihilated either. Iran and Israel are a concern as well. I could see Israel nuking Iran, but they know Russia would be down their throat in a second.
So, all of the sabre rattling around the internet sounds scary and all—but there is no reasonable person who would set off nukes these days. Plenty of room for a cruise missile here and there, but not nukes.
Omits the most dangerous threat to the nation’s nuclear deterrence: Democrats.
It is absolutely critical that we keep nuclear war “Unthinkable” IN THE MINDS OF OUR ADVERSARIES.