If we used nukes for war yesterday, the stigma against using nukes tomorrow wouldn’t be as strong.
Nukes indiscriminately kill so many people, and at the end of the day, most ideologies want to protect people.
If the argument is “well, think of how many people the US killed, and we could have stopped it early”, there is a non-zero chance that would have been true, but it’s far from guaranteed.
If we used nukes for war yesterday, the stigma against using nukes tomorrow wouldn’t be as strong.
Nukes indiscriminately kill so many people, and at the end of the day, most ideologies want to protect people.
If the argument is “well, think of how many people the US killed, and we could have stopped it early”, there is a non-zero chance that would have been true, but it’s far from guaranteed.