Russia threatens to nuke poland

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Kasz216 said:

I disagree somewhat... during Vietnam the US was really close to trying to nuke the crap out of everything russian and chinese.  I'd almost gurantee the russians were really close to doing the same at some point.

Mutually assured destruction while prevents a lot of it... also leads to "Well if we nuke just about everything they have, REALLY fast we might just be ok."

Hence why missle defense systems are needed.  Also, to the person who said it above.  No the US would not Nuke Canada if Russia put nuclear defense missles there.  That's just stupid.

for the first bolded point - part of why it works is because that pretty much can't happen. Both Russia and the U.S. desperately tried, but even under their best scenarios, there was just no way to eradicate an entire country without them being able to do the same.

 

As for the second bolded point - no, but they almost nuked Russia over missiles in Cuba, which was a direct response to U.S. missiles in East Europe. Why did it not actually happen? mostly because of my response to the first bolded point.