>From the article: "The experts and officials playing as China had a wide range >of military targets—Asia is chock-full of American facilities and naval >assets. (Though there is little evidence that China possesses low-yield nukes >right now.) The American team, by contrast, struggled with the fact that many >of the most attractive targets for retaliation were on the Chinese mainland. >Striking those with tactical nuclear weapons would carry a much higher risk of >escalation to general nuclear war."
The plausible argument is that nuclear weapons might be used on naval installations, but the barriers to nuclear attack on populations remain high. There's a certain self-centredness, in the face of this framework, when one projects his own concern onto surprise that "we haven’t seen the revival of the old Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31815): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31815 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108097276/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
