The reality of having Nuclear Weapons is if you have them then no one is going to push things too far so you use them. The proliferation of nuclear weapons in the USA and USSR was just a big show of force by both of them and a complete waste of money there has never been a requirement to have that many. The reality is the devastation caused by just a handful of nuclear weapons is sufficient to deter their usage. The worlds problems aren't solved by nuclear weapons just held in abeyance for now. Alas the genie is out of the bottle.Americas usage of them in WW2 wasn't anything to do with showing Russia anything it was because they feared the amount of casualties an invasion of mainland Japan would cause. Japan was neither ready nor willing to surrender until those bombs had been dropped.
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