Comment by ehnto
4 years ago
It's my opinion that in a nuclear Armageddon, it wouldn't just be a free-for-all for every nuke to be let fly at every country currently at odds with each other. For example, if Russia and US trade nukes, I wouldn't expect all other WMD wielding country to just start attacking every country they're in poor standing with.
For Australia in particular, we don't have nukes so we shouldn't be on anyone's Mutually Assured Destruction ledger, and if not that then it would be an opportunistic nuke, the purpose of which I can't fathom. It would be better to take Australia by conventional means and keep the infrastructure in tact, since without our allies we have very little defense.
It was revealed that during Cold War there was a plan to nuke all cities over 100k inhabitants anywhere in the world so that no civilization can restart anywhere. For example, some nukes on Ukraine were pointed to China, a somewhat ally of the USSR at that time. I don't think Australia can rely on being non-nuclear to escape if SHTF.