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Originally Posted by Catfish
My reason is a bit different though, i would not like a fictitious EU army to build and maintain nuclear weapons in the long run.
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No nukes, no believable deterrance. That simple. When states reach the possession of nukes, wars between them slow down and become very rare, that is an empirical fact. Best illustrations are India, China and Pakistan.
However, what raises, is asymmetrical warfare, terrorism, guerilla wars and pöroxy wars and the likes. That also can be counted out for convincing empirical evidence.
For example chapters 14 and 15 in "The culture of War", which I currently read a second time.
The most murderous and blood-dripping weapon of mass destruction in history is not the hydrogen bomb, but is the small callibre firearm, btw.