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Originally Posted by Raellus
Agreed. Unless Taiwan both refused to assist the PRC (either directly or as a transshipment point for war materials) AND refused to allow the U.S. to base military assets there once the U.S. entered the war, Taiwan would almost certainly get nuked by the Soviets. At the least, targets would be U.S. base sites and oil refineries. At the worst, Taiwan's manufacturing sector would get it too.
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I think you have to look at what happened to Thailand (or the lack of what happened to Thailand) as an indication of where the Soviets might not have used nukes - after all Thailand is a US ally and a great place to base US planes and ships - but you dont see nuke damage there - still I agree if you had US ships using one port a lot that port might just get a nice nuke saying hello to it
in general though unless the Taiwanese go out of their way to make themselves a target there are a lot better uses for Soviet nukes in Asia