"Nuke ownership operates on the principle of deterrence. If US pre-emptively nukes a country, there is a non-infinitesimal chance that a different nuclear power (e.g. Russia, China, UK, France, Pakistan, etc.) will choose to punish the US.
I very much don't think we should be using nukes, but I'm not sure about this reason. After the USA proves that it's willing to use nukes if 'provoked', then would that make other nations more or less likely to adopt an oppositional stance to the USA? I would expect the move to be widely condemned, but I doubt any individual nation would be willing to step up and address it, certainly not in forceful terms.
I can imagine that might be some attempt to resolve the problem through the UN, in the hopes of denying the crazy Americans a specific target to throw a nuke at. I think that's the most I would be willing to put bets on happening.
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I very much don't think we should be using nukes, but I'm not sure about this reason. After the USA proves that it's willing to use nukes if 'provoked', then would that make other nations more or less likely to adopt an oppositional stance to the USA? I would expect the move to be widely condemned, but I doubt any individual nation would be willing to step up and address it, certainly not in forceful terms.
I can imagine that might be some attempt to resolve the problem through the UN, in the hopes of denying the crazy Americans a specific target to throw a nuke at. I think that's the most I would be willing to put bets on happening.