[rednesss]

Something else you’re not taking into consideration. In 1945, every piece of machine that makes life livable didn’t contain a bunch of transistors and electronics that will be fried the second a nuclear bomb detonates. The amount of casualties in the following weeks due to starvation would probably be more than the number killed by the explosion. 13 million people in Beijing aren’t going to just suddenly have vegetable gardens spring up in a dense urban setting.

[GonzoGOP]

Remember that nukes are a psychological as well as a physical weapon. Demolishing Beijing isn't the problem. It is getting every town in the hinterlands. Lenin once said that he didn't care if half the people in the world died so long as those that remained were communist. So to stop a communist dictator, who doesn't care about the lives of their people or if they have to eat grass like they do in North Korea, it isn't about how many people you kill. Anything less than everybody isn't a deterrent.