rooted in the belief that the country could face destruction if a war turns decisively against it.
Every nuclear nation would use them if they were losing whether they were public or not about it.
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The only concern I have are countries lack of willingness to hold Israel to account
Everything about the current Israel is worrying
Current? They seem to have always been a rogue borderline terrorist state. Didn't they steal their nuclear weapons from the US basically?
"steal"
More like they were allowed to "steal" them.
Well, there was one president who didn't let them steal them. Whatever happened to him?
I'm not a weapons expert, but all the bombs they've dropped so far in Palestine and the region could add up to a few nuclear bombs, no?
I'm not a weapons expert, but all the bombs they've dropped so far in Palestine and the region could add up to a few nuclear bombs, no?
No where near even a few kiloton.
But you don't need nukes when you're dropping a few kilos of He on a target given to you by Palantir's kill chainm-. The precision is crazy.
System detects a Palestinians saying a bunch of stuff these neo-fascists think is bad. Meta data is scrapped from the telco systems to map the targets location via latitude and longitude. A Hermes drone orbiting the city gets those coordinates and automatically fires a Spike missile at the target.
Victim is murdered and the Israeli's claim in a bullshit press release that they killed another terrorist.
Netanyahu has gone amok
Today's atomic bombs are way more powerful than the ones dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Humanity hasn't learned anything from history.
The collective explosive power isn’t this issue. The issue is that if Israel believes it will lose a war its policy is to believe it will not be allowed to exist in any capacity. Which means its security policy regarding nukes is to take the entire region with them by glassing the Middle East.
Thats bad enough, but additionally because of the way the rest of the worlds nuclear arsenals work, that sort of event could and almost certainly would be the trigger for the end of all life on this planet
The Sampson option. And the world is held hostage to their insanity.
That term is rather ironic: Samson’s final act was in Gaza.
Your question was addressed in the article:
The intensity of the bombardment has been extraordinary. Some military analysts estimate that the explosive power dropped on Gaza during the early stages of the war alone amounted to several times the explosive yield of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
The comparison does not suggest equivalence between nuclear and conventional weapons. The devastation of a nuclear detonation would be vastly greater. But it does reveal something important about the scale of force Israeli leaders have been willing to deploy when they believe national security is at stake. If a state is willing to unleash such overwhelming destruction through conventional means, the uncomfortable question arises: what would its threshold be if it believed it was actually losing a war?