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Originally Posted by GGG
But if troops invade the nukes come out. I don't think we will ever see a ground based war between two nuclear armed oponents.
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I don't know if that's necessarily true. If both nations have nukes they probably also both have fairly well trained and well armed armies. The release of nukes by one nations destroys both nations, but its not a guarantee because so much of the worlds nuclear arsenal is based around mobility. Missile armed subs vs rail mounted or truck mounted mobile launchers. Its no guarantee that a counter force strike will remove nuclear capability.
I would expect that if nation A (Nuclear armed) vs nation b (nuclear b) that you might see the use of battlefield nuclear weapons, but not strategic nuclear weapons and both nations would try to fight things out on the ground first. All bets are off if things become truly desperate.
Look at how many times Israel was invaded especially in 1973 when Egyptian Forces were actually quite successful and invaded into Israel, tet the Israeli's who had several airplane mountable nuclear weapons didn't deploy them.