I'm honestly surprised they haven't dropped nukes yet. The only reason i can imagine they haven't is either ChatGPT is telling them it'd be politically untenable or Russia or China or both have said "no nukes"

Edit: unless... posadist-nuke

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It’s Russia bro, and probably to a lesser extent China.

Think about those decaying old counter-strike systems that are keyed to launch when American nukes are detected in-flight, from the Cold War era. Even our idiotic Dept of War knows better than to test those by firing nukes in Russia’s general direction, because there’s a very good chance we’d get bombarded and we already blew our missile defense stockpile protecting greater Israel.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Think about those decaying old counter-strike systems that are keyed to launch when American nukes are detected in-flight, from the Cold War era. Even our idiotic Dept of War knows better than to test those by firing nukes in Russia’s general direction, because there’s a very good chance we’d get bombarded and we already blew our missile defense stockpile protecting greater Israel.

presumably they'd use a submarine-launched nuke given the circumstances

[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

That or a B-2 since that's what it was designed to do

[–] Vanilla987654321@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Pakistan too, since they would not be receptive to nuclear fallout and millions of refugees.