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SWBTATTReg

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1. Perhaps the thinking of using nuclear weapons in regular wartime events is a little outdated? ...

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 05:16 PM

Jan 2020

These weapons have been around since the 1940s and yet none have ever been used (except in Japan twice) in wartime. None. Almost 80 years. I'd like to give the human race a little credit here in not going full blown out and using these weapons right and left...we didn't.

Thank god of course but I would like to think that better heads have prevailed over the many decades since these destructive weapons were created...

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Perhaps the thinking of using nuclear weapons in regular wartime events is a little outdated? ... SWBTATTReg Jan 2020 #1

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