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Re:In Defence of a ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Doctrine by masteryupa_ on Thursday August 18, 2016 @11:21PM (#12317791)
Apologies for the miss-type, the error has been corrected:

"Firstly, it is important to recall that in the entire span since the United States acquired nuclear weapons, outside the two instances in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, it has not seen fit to use them."

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Re:In Defence of a ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Doctrine by SilasX on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:27AM (#12317969)
"Other than the death of her husband, Mrs. Lincoln enjoyed the play."
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Re:In Defence of a ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Doctrine by madgar on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:55AM (#12318028)
Yeah because avoiding nuclear holocaust during the Cold War was a walk in the park and definitely not worth highlighting /s
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Re:In Defence of a ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Doctrine by DHMO on Thursday August 18, 2016 @11:53PM (#12317872)
And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_...

And others have also set off the bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests

Granted, weapons testing is a little different than intentional use in war against an enemy.

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Re:In Defence of a ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Doctrine by pluma on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:00AM (#12318764)
"a little"
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Re:In Defence of a ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Doctrine by duncan_bayne on Friday August 19, 2016 @08:25PM (#12324431)
Not as little a difference as you might hope, in the case of atmospheric testing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_At...

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