>> there are plenty nutter states out there
Nutter States are typically not our issue. Nutter groups are. This could be a group of only a few hundred yet they are not scared of your nuclear weapons, neither are they any more deterred by the nukes then they are of your smart bombs.
Now lets say one of those nutter groups nuke us. For the purposes JUST of this discussion, lets say it is ISIS.
So *where* would you nuke back?
Who are these nukes deterring?
Certainly no current state. Do we feel that a new country/state may arise with nuclear capability? Faster than we could re-acquire a nuclear capability?
In the end I think to have a nuclear capability just about makes sense. But I'd want to know what the minimum we could have actually is.
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