[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

If we're ever in a situation involving a major nuclear state that would realistically necessitate the threat of M.A.D, the civilised world will already be over. As you well know, war has changed, and enemies like ISIS are NOT swayed by the concept of M.A.D.... It's like threatening a swarm of bees with a sledgehammer. Mutually assured destruction is an outdated political philosophy that should have died with the Soviet Union.

And let's be clear - M.A.D is the -- only -- possible reason that we could have for maintaining nukes. If anyone starts launching them, the literal world is finished. Ashes.

But you are a 'glass half empty' type of guy T.S. - even when it is a FULL 2 PINT STEIN in front of you.

There exists such strategies as 'Preemptive Strikes' and 'Detterent' - all good stuff.

It is total B.S. that the 'EU' has 'kept the peace' in Europe since WW2' - it is the hoorors which befell two little cities in Japan which have thus far prevented WW3, and they are called Hiroshima and Nagasaki.