• Skua
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    While this may well be true, Russia has so many nukes and nukes are themselves so destructive that it’s kinda cold comfort even if 90% of them fail

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        10 months ago

        You wouldn’t even need a working one. A lot of nuclear responses work by going off the moment a likely missile fitting that criteria launches, since it would be too late otherwise.

        Someone making the wrong decision at a given time could easily cause everything to go up in a nuclear conflagration. It’s nearly happened before.