Comment on Why did Pootin threaten the whole world with nuclear weapons, but then stopped doing so?
Skua@kbin.social 11 months agoWhile 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
Badeendje@lemmy.world 11 months ago
T156@lemmy.world 11 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.