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Originally Posted by dude_uk
Which idiot at NATO HQ thought that one up?! And more importantly the British Army toy-box is empty, what units?
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Good points.
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Nuke usage in T2K doesn't exactly follow any plans I've ever heard about.
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As the saying goes, no plan ever survive the contact with the enemy. In my opinion, plans are just a foundation for improvisation.
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Originally Posted by Panther Al
(In short: The TDM was too massive in too short a time to allow emergency services to do a good job in dealing with the effects, but too small and targeted on the right targets without hitting others, that would force a epically massive need for the same.)
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I agree as well. Just one hit in an urban area would probably tie up most of a countries medical and firefighting abilities.
One thing to remember is that the Soviet nukes was cruder and larger. I don't know if that was correct for the late '90s or not. But the reason for the larger Soviet ones was that the western robots could hit a specific building, and a Soviet one could not. A Soviet one didn't have precision enough to hit a specific city block, so it needed a lot more bang to make sure the target was destroyed. That was also the reason why it was any point to build those bunkers that would survive "...unless receiving a direct hit."