a very clear lesson of the last 20 years from Libya to Ukraine* has been to get nukes if you can.
*ukraine did not control its own nuclear weapons but it would be in a much better position if it had them now
*ukraine did not control its own nuclear weapons but it would be in a much better position if it had them now
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"Developing nuclear weapons to counter North Korea is not 'off the table' for South Korea, foreign minister Cho Tae-yul stated on Wednesday"
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Ukraine was invaded because it wasn’t in NATO
But operationalizing the use of nuclear weapons during the war would not have been trivial it seems to me.
I'd read a short summary of what such an approach might have been.
Guess it's time to welcome back the nuclear anxiety of my childhood. (Seriously, given how this increases the risk of something terrible happening by accident, we should all be shitting ourselves.)
Stupid, unnecessary own goal for US policy.
I do not think it will be recoverable by 2028. We're going to have a different, worse, international system.
I believe there was a window of opportunity.
Not many years ago I was a staunch opponent of nuclear weapons. I still believe they’re the among the closest things to purely evil technologies. But needs must, when the devil drives.
From ex-Soviet tech gossip.