• RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Not to mention that many countries shelter under the US’s nuclear umbrella. If the US is no longer guaranteed to actually be there, other countries might spin up a nuclear program themselves.

    It won’t be thousands of nukes, but then more countries will have a nuclear arsenal to protect themselves, making the chance some conflict will spark it’s use bigger.