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Originally Posted by Spartan198
Iran, much like North Korea, would make a better sheet of radioactive glass on the ground than it is a sovereign nation...
What happened to the good old days when you could threaten rogue nations with nuclear annihilation if they didn't do what we told them to do? :P
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I dunno, the fact that South Korea became democratic and prosperous suggests that the Korean people aren't necessarily inclined to live under tyrannical thugs permanently. I'm not so sure about the Persians, on the other hand...they have a tradition of brutal autocracy that extends back, way before even Islam. But anyway, those people don't deserve to be nuked.
As far as what happened to the "good old days", the answer is M.A.D. As I've told our Brazilian friend, nobody really believes nukes will ever get used again any time soon (not by states, anyway...terrorist groups are another matter). Nukes are by definition a deterrent to combat usage.