Quote Originally Posted by amsterdam
while i dont agree with a preemptive nuke strike,i will say that nuclear weapons today are much different today than 50 years ago.you dont have to level an entire city.you can tacticaly nuke part of it.
Yea but knowing USA, you'd drop 60 megatonnes to take out a bunker. Surely there are other weapons that are able to take out a part of a city without causing a fallout.
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