Real-life question for those who were in

[Abbott Shaull]

Originally Posted by Webstral

Of course, a nuclear opening might very well render the whole point of winning the war moot.


Webstral

Yes once you invade a country you tend to want to be able to take it over and have it in state to add value to you. If you nuke everything where there are hot zones all over the place and make it where you can't occupy it, then why start the war to begin with. One of several factors that keep the places like India and Pakistan, even the North Korean from using them. In many case, that have kept the NATO in check even when it provoked, regardless if it was the old Soviet Union or Russia.

It is nations like Isreal and France who more or less have the weapons out of self-defense that are more worrisome at times. Where they have more or less have the spoken/unspoken threat out there. Which is kinda of the standpoint the Soviets had for use of the nukes in the open acts of war if it came to a point where they felt the Soviet Union was threaten enough where they had to go to war.