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Originally Posted by blankall
If the tech isn't American, you'd assume someone would have used it to put America in their place by now.
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Maybe they have? Maybe a lot of sightings are just that?
The thing about everyone having nuclear weapons is, as unlikely as people are to use them, they’re still incredibly effective tools for causing some unrest in a population. You can pretty easily #### up the morale of a population by dangling a nuclear threat around, even if the military doesn’t see it as a credible threat (due to mutually assured destruction or other intel).
If a country had tech that was significant enough, just teasing another country with brief public “displays” that put people into a panic might be enough to have that country want to avoid having the cat out of the bag.