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Originally Posted by CaptainDan
Tell them we'd nuke them back. (duh)
No rationally run government would risk such an "everybody loses" proposition. (plus it wouldn't get them any food)This is the "Mutual Assured Destruction" doctrine that kept the US and the USSR from destroying each other (and the rest of the planet) throughout the cold war.
You really just need to worry about the NON-rationally run governments lobbing nukes. You know, the psycho, nut-job dictators. Not the ones that talk smack, the ones that REALLY might do something that stupid. There are only a few of them, and we know who they are. And even THEY haven't been dumb enough to start lobbing nukes so far.
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Correct, and I'm assuming that people in the streets would have brought down the "rational" governments, and installed the nut-job nationalist maniacs who would rather go down in flames for the glory of their country than have it die a slow starving death.