More valuable, in any rational sense of the term. Having them without anyone believing that you have them is more or less useless. Their only purpose is deterrence (unless you have a death wish for your population, and there are easier methods available if that's your 'use case')

I believe that’s his point.

>Having the world believe you have nukes is nearly as valuable as actually having them.

Not if you don’t have even a single aircraft carrier dude.

You’ll just get a lot of innocent people hurt in a rightful and overwhelming second strike.

Edit: hit send early - my bad… this isn’t Reddit :-)