- Goatse James Bond
- Mar 28, 2010
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I also like that instead of calling the opposite of "No First Use" "First Use" (AKA "We Will Totally Nuke You") they call it "Defensive Use Only"
But yeah the Samson Option is one of the most hosed up nuclear strategies out there. It's basically "if our existence is threatened we will nuke everyone nearby including possibly ourselves with the primary goal being killing everyone and not the destruction of military targets". It's a suicidal version of Massive Retaliation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_retaliation
Also kind of chilling that the Israeli government all but threatened the US government with implementing it during the Yom Kippur War if the US didn't send supplies.
edit: Also would we be able to make this the general nuclear/chemical/biological weapon proliferation and policy thread?
I've always waffles on the inclusion of chemical in the category. Like yeah, they serve no useful purpose other than a terror weapon / killing civilians, but they don't have the same sort of massive death potential. Worst case scenario you render a region dangerous to inhabit.
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