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<p class="MsoPlainText">Steve writes:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">< If you are suggesting that the use of nuclear weapons by NATO or Russia in this conflict would be limited to "a handful" (1, 2, 3 digits?) exchanged from each side, and the result of *that* would result instead in Glen's "tacit demonstration".
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Here's 50 kt yield in the context of the country. (Courtesy of
<a href="https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/">https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I’m just saying it could go on a while. I think Putin doesn’t give a damn about his armed forces, and would not treat a battlefield exchange the same way he would treat an attack on Moscow.
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