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Originally Posted by icarus
Because nuclear weapons are universally viewed as reprehensible by all parties, whether participants in the war or not. More people were killed in the bombing and firestorms of Tokyo in WWII than in the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and yet to this day there remains outrage that the US used the atomic bomb in warfare. My opinion.
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Sure
However if we're basing war on mathematics and removing the human element, then nuclear f#cking weapons (see what I did there?) are certainly the way to go. The cost to build and deploy one which kills thousands or 10's of thousands is far more efficient then training transporting, feeding recruiting and arming the thousands or troops that would pull off the same kind of kill ratio.
whether is reprehensible or not, it is the most effective killing machine ever made.