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Au Naturel's avatar

The world is full of experts on nuclear weapons and the political decision making process to deploy them. Their internet bio says so.

Dude doesn't understand mutual assured destruction - MAD. Escalation to "dominate" is impossible.

Once you get to a certain level of arms, more bombs don't help. You are just making rubble bounce. Both the US and Russia are perfectly capable of rendering each other smoking ruins and you don't need any more than that. Even China has that ability.

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Robert Gardner's avatar

Fascinating piece, Ryan. I admire how you can pull this information causally out of your butt without raising a sweat and make it all accessible in the context of common sense, based on your experience and access to information. It is true that the mention of nuclear war is an emotional hot button to most of us, so this kind of explanation is really valuable. I genuinely hope you really know what you are talking about. Thanks for doing this.

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