>mutually assured destruction is not a thing. :^)

We use NUTS now, dummy.

>>1524547

WW2 nukes don't really compare to modern ones, though.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

>>1524547

MAD is only a thing if all sides believe it is a thing. The soviets didnt believe in MAD. They believed after the initital nuclear strikes they would be in a better place to fight a traditional war than the west would be.

>>1524580
then why did they pretend to take MAD seriously and never launch their nukes?

>>1524580
They were fucking delusional. Our nuke codes were literally

00000000

so our operators could spam the passwords and nuke the shit out of those commie fucks.

What happens if you live in the middle of nowhere though?

>>1524599
>What happens if you live in the middle of nowhere though?

>what happens when you live in the Colorado desert and New York/Washington/Las Vegas is wiped off the face of the earth

>>1524599
The middle of nowhere is where all the nukes are going to land.

>>1524607
>>what happens when you live in the Colorado desert and New York/Washington/Las Vegas is wiped off the face of the earth
I would still be alive, what's your point?

>>1524587
They didn't want a destructive war, MAD notwithstanding.

>>1524607
Would be pretty comfy.

>>1524642
You would die in the radiation and nuclear winter that would follow. The US has enough nukes to nuke everyone on the Earth several times over.

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>>1525877
>You would die in the radiation and nuclear winter that would follow. The US has enough nukes to nuke everyone on the Earth several times over.
stop repeating this stale meme

>>1525877
>The US has enough nukes to nuke everyone on the Earth several times over.
WE

>>1524587
a. Soviet strategy was only for retaliatory nuclear response
b. why start the war if it can be avoided

>>1525921
Not him, but how is this a meme?

>>1524547
It isn't, you can't nuke everything

Who's going to spare nukes on the Congo? Or Chad?

Nobody that's who

>>1525877
Citation: your ass

>>1525877
>source: the Fallout series

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>>1524547
iirc it's not a thing anymore because there's a belief that a limited nuclear use could then be followed by de-escalation. Still, a nuke seems like a decent thing to have to prevent others from thinking they could easily attack you.

>>1526130
>MAD is not a thing because after Americans and Russians wipe themselves out Africans will colonize the ruins.
Yeah sure.

>>1526131
If you keep saying bad words I will delete your post

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>>1526131
>US
~7k nukes
>Russia
~7k nukes

>not enough to wipe the entire human race out of existence
>at least not back to the stone age

>>1526194
Not even 7K combined and not all would be launched

>>1526280
Citation: your ass.

>>1524599
>Eurasia and North America would wipe each other out.
>Central Asians, South Americans, Africans, and Southeast Asians will inherit the earth.

>>1526289
And your citation for 7K each?

>>1526314
All the worlds current information.

>>1524580
No, the Soviets hoped that a large conventional war between the super powers wouldn't necessarily turn into a nuclear one. On the other hand, it was the strategy of the NATO forces to make the Soviets believe that they would retaliate with nukes in case of a conventional attack because they were inferior conventionally.

>"I truly believe that one does not light-heartedly attack people who are able to kill 80 million Russians, even if one can kill 800 million French, that is if there were 800 million French."

I don't know, but Charles de Gaulle really believed in the MAD.