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[10ebbor10]

If we see an all out war in the future, I would not be suprised to see massive biological and chemical weaponry use, as well as geoengineering to sabotage the enemy.

There was a plan to bomb german cities with Anthrax in WO II (And I don't really know why they didn't do it). The advantage of Anthrax was that it was very efficient (essentially turning the entire city in a wasteland for the next 30 years) and couldn't spread. (Spores are stuck in the ground). This makes it a very efficient weapon of mass destruction.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

They didn't do that because Hitler had chemical and bacteriological weapon, too. But even Nazi weren't crazy enough to start a chemical Armageddon in their own country

In fact that shows, that full out conventional war between nuclear countries is quite possible, because in WW2 all parties had a lot of chemical weapons and not used it (almost)

[Helgoland]

Funny thing, I thought about that just a few weeks ago: MAD still works in a war as long as all sides still have something to lose - territorial losses are usually an acceptable alternative to total obliteration.

[sneakey pete]

Dropping asteroids is kind of a big deal.

Yet still probably easier than getting heaps of mass to orbit to drop back down again.

[Loud Whispers]

If we see an all out war in the future, I would not be suprised to see massive biological and chemical weaponry use, as well as geoengineering to sabotage the enemy.

"Who needs the Geneva convention anyways..."

[Helgoland]

If we see an all out war in the future, I would not be suprised to see massive biological and chemical weaponry use, as well as geoengineering to sabotage the enemy.

"Who needs the Geneva convention anyways..."

"Where there's no judge, there's no executioner."

[TheBronzePickle]

"Where there's no axe, there's no wood."

That's where we were going with this, right?

[Helgoland]

"Where there's no trees, there's no forest."

[Darvi]

"Where there's no forest, there's no elves."

Profit!

[Kogan Loloklam]

US marines are more like the 0.08%

yea, so super-rich, not just rich.
LASER-VISION!

Still, robots are cheaper, and the rich wouldn't want to leave their fancy martian resorts and do manual labor, so no Space Marines. Sorry.

[10ebbor10]

Funny thing, I thought about that just a few weeks ago: MAD still works in a war as long as all sides still have something to lose - territorial losses are usually an acceptable alternative to total obliteration.

This is why SDI is so dangerous. It changes total obliteration to possible obliteration, and someone might take it's worth the risk.

The communists had plan to nuke Europe around 1950,1962, and 1979 (as in, tactical manoevres required and such). I think they estimated 2 million death on their side from return strikes.