Loss in terms of money or efforts. Could be recent or ancient.
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Could do a show of force in an area where people don’t live, and then threaten to use it in cities or something. Like other countries with nukes do…
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Are you kidding? Not to say we didn’t exactly have that luxury in 1945, but we didn’t.
We had enough uranium and plutonium for the 3 bombs, and that was it. Our bluff was that we would keep doing it. And the nuke hadn’t been displayed before that point either, so what good is a threat when it hasn’t been shown before? We did exactly that and they didn’t care.
