Concern Rising That Putin Could Use Nuclear Weapons

KI tablets to saturate the thyroid, but don&#x27;t take so much as to kill yourself. Perhaps iodized salt will help, but that might be a lot of salt.<p>My hope has always been when a leader decided to push the button that those around them, or in charge of the button, decide that their cushy life is more valuable than the leader&#x27;s cushy life. Or, more valuable than dying for the cause.<p>They&#x27;re not a rational weapon, as they&#x27;re a deterrent rather than anything else. But is war rational?

I was thinking to post an AskHN, but I’ll trial it here: given that Hiroshima was rebuilt &amp; populated only a few years after being nuked, and several countries exploded hundreds if not thousands of nukes during their testing programs, and we seem to be doing okay … what would the consequences really be if this devolves into a nuclear war? It seems to me now that the doomsday movies that frightened me as a child in the seventies&#x2F;eighties might have been less than truthful, at least for those of us not living in targeted cities.

If we take him his word, what word do we give him? “Anything, please, just don’t do it” or “Remember the words ‘mutual’ and ‘assured’ in mutual assured destruction”?<p>He goes first with nukes, Russia is a pariah for quite a long while. Especially if the response is strong without nukes.