Timeline for Why would a state retaliate to a nuclear strike if the consequences could be human extinction?
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| Jan 22 at 9:45 | history | edited | Stančikas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 22 at 9:43 | comment | added | Stančikas | It is very difficult to predict how a single specific individual (say President) in would behave. When summarizing decisions as made by multiple people, likely you would get some statistical distribution with all outcomes non zero probability. | |
| Jan 22 at 9:25 | comment | added | ilkkachu | Expectations of an afterlife or other religious considerations might well be a good point in some cases. But I'm not so sure about the drills, I think the question is more about if the leaders of the victim country will choose to strike back, not if their troops will follow up on the order. Anyway, counter-strike in the extreme case will likely be rather large, and probably still significant even if some missile crew were to reject their orders. | |
| Jan 22 at 8:23 | history | edited | Stančikas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 21 at 16:33 | history | edited | Stančikas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 21 at 16:09 | history | answered | Stančikas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |