[CaptainCrunch]

War has always been about math over desire. Oh sure the start of any war is all about emotional decisions, and even to the individual its all about survival instinct.

But at the end of the day its about math

Number of deaths + reduction in production + reduction in standard of living/overall population base = a numerical representation of national moral. If it drops significantly below the same calculation taken before the war starts national resolve drops and your country loses its war fighting ability.

Just like on the military side its all about force multipliers or the number of kills generated/number of actual combat troops = effectiveness of your military. If the enemy military is 10 times larger then yours, then your technology + training + logistics has to create a 6 to 8 kill ratio per active soldier in the field.

In the start of the Iraq war the American kill ratio and ability to demoralize Iraq's government in place = mililtary victory. In the afterwar fighting the kill ration by Iraq's insurgants and cost per kill accelerated greatly impacting moral.

Its all math.

But when you consider the force multiplier of one nuclear war head on a civilian center as a few hundred thousand to one, and the impact on civilian moral as huge, its a wonder that these weapons haven't been used more often. Because from a logical mathmaticall side, we should be nuking everyone from day one of any conflict.