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Originally Posted by mikemhg
Do people actually truly fear nuclear arms being used in the modern age?
I've always laughed when we'd get the few year mark of the media freaking out about North Korea or Iran's nuclear capabilities.
There is a reason why nuclear weapons haven't been used since 1945 (and at that against a weak enemy without any nuclear arms themselves). The idea of MAD is as true as its ever been, you will likely never see a country use nuclear weapons against another country with the same capabilities. We have been in far more tumultuous times in which they've never been utilized, so why today?
Real life isn't like movies -- Countries with nuclear capabilities like Russia or China have an entire apparatus that surrounds such access to those weapons, most leaders aren't some cartoon-like character that wishes to destroy themselves in the goal to stick it to The West.
What more likely we'll see, and currently are seeing are economic, social/political, technological war, and as someone else has said in real battle, proxy wars.
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i think i mentioned this here before but cbc radio once had a guest on, or it might have been a segment from another radio show that was played on cbc radio that was a former high up in the US military. this was during the time where people were afraid that trump would launch nukes on a whim. the guy said that the system is not designed for checks and balances in the case that the president wants to launch nukes, it's designed for expediency. now i'm sure there are checks and balances in place in some regard, but it's still a scary thought.