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Originally Posted by Skybird
Thjats a Potemkian improrvement, if I may lend from that metaphor. The quality of the deciison is the same and thus the enbemy must take into account retaliation anyway by the nation he attacks. The hope is for that MAD creates deterrance. And this deterrance is not improved by your argument on bombers.
The reasoning you give is in itself logical, but practically not relevant. Its an academical finger excercise, if I may say so.
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I would point out that missile defense may deny the deterrence credibility of the second (prefered) option by defeating surviving missiles/RVs.
And that Avanguard is a way to fix this without falling into the other problem of attacking US with nuclear weapons on false warning without confirming detonations first.
Otherwise - we can agree to disagree as civilised people.