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Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack by Nbox9 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:14PM (#28687621)
We abolished biological and chemical weapons because they are considered obsolete tools of war after nuclear was invented. Who enforces the abolishment of bio/chem? States with nuclear arsenals. There’s little appetite in nuclear powered nations for nuclear disarmament. There is appetite for nuclear nonproliferation among nuclear powers, in large part because it maintains the power imbalance.

If you want to push for nuclear disarmament you’ll have to find a different model than bio/chem disarmament.

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Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack by Symmetry on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:24PM (#28687716)
It's worth noting that the USSR actually kept a lot of anthrax warheads on ICBMs in a counter-value (i.e. against cities) role. But yeah, they're basically only useful for threatening revenge and aren't for actually fighting for the same reason that chemical weapons aren't.

https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...

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