United States, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, France, North Korea...
They are "used" passively. Any country that has the ability to create a nuclear explosion is constantly using them as diplomatic leverage. Even if you don't detonate them, even if you don't talk about them directly, the capability alone shapes reality.
Re:Missilemap
by _Codemonkeyism on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:50AM
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The video is about activly using nuclear weapons in a war.
Parent was
"One of the big worries I have is that a losing super power would turn to nukes once conventional weapons stores are exhausted."
"It's pretty straight-forward and has been for decades: conventional forces go first; if you begin losing badly, then you pull the nuclear card to prevent any meaningful territorial losses; the war ends in some variation of a stalemate."
Exactly where have nuclear weapons used "for decades" in this way?