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woofyman on Dec 16, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chinese warship stole US underwater drone

How can 2 nuclear powers fight a conventional war?

noir_lord on Dec 16, 2016 [–]

Theoretically by not pushing the other one so hard that they'd go nuclear but it would be tap dancing on a cliff edge the whole way.

The 'traditional' way for nuclear powers to fight a 'war' is via Proxy wars (Vietnam, middle eastern wars etc).

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