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NoxObscuras posted...

There's nothing stopping them from launching more either way, but launching a nuke at Russia pretty much guarantees they'll go scorched earth and launch all of the 1,500+ nukes that are already ready. It's literally an "everyone on earth dies" scenario. And no one wants that.

At least if we retaliate without nukes, they might not go that extreme.

And if we targeted the Kremlin and took out Putin, it triggers all those nukes via the Dead Hand. The only scenario where it wouldn't, would be an impossible series of events that involved a land war in Russia and Putin (and all his senior leaders) staying together in Moscow(or another place) during said land war and them getting eliminated in one non-nuclear strike. It won't happen but that might be the only way that the Dead Hand won't be activated.

It's a very damned if you do retaliate, damned if you don't retaliate