Beijing now possesses some 500 operational nuclear warheads, a new Pentagon report says.
  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t China one of the countries that already has enough nukes to glass the entire world multiple times over?

    What difference does it make if they have even more?

    …or is that stat bullshit? I’ve heard it parroted pretty much my entire life, but never actually thought to fact check it until now.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      The idea is that you scatter them around so that it couldn’t be taken out with a single attack, and you also want more than a few per location as various countermeasures diminishes the chances of them actually hitting.

      But yes, it’s kind of pointless as if we ever reach the point of nuclear war, it will be total destruction as everyone will use their full arsenals to avoid giving any other country an advantage post nuclear winter.