Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:This somewhat explodes (pun intended) that nuclear weapons are only a deterrent to stop use by others. We must have them because others do and they won’t attack us. The problem is that Putin now suggests their preparation are to do with financial threats from the West, nothing to do with Nuclear weapons at all.
I wonder how we will convince the British public to spend billions on the latest Nuclear weapons and claim that they guarantee our security.
Not sure that I follow you here, SP.
Obviously there are enough warheads across the world to take out the entire population but, as the US showed in Hiroshima, any country without these weapons or a close ally that will step in, could be vulnerable to a realistic threat from someone like Putin.
IMO, his talk of making these weapons ready for use was more brinkmanship, from a leader that has gone too far already.
If these things start landing, nobody wins. Not Putin and not The West either.
