01-24-2017, 05:59 PM
(01-24-2017, 05:31 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: The analysis you complemented me on earlier was simply a list of things that are going on now. I don't think they preclude a more conventional conflict a little later on, and I don't think that conflict would necessarily escalate to a full-on nuclear exchange. Probably wouldn't, really, for much the same reason the Korean War didn't.
It's not likely that escalation during the Korean War was limited by the possibility of a nuclear exchange. We had roughly 300 nukes in our inventory; the Soviets had 5 or so. No one else had any. It would have been very one sided.
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