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Originally Posted by GenjiChan
Probably the UN is involved as well? And I think it is different from Soviet's selfish conquest of Afghanistan. Maybe the UN made it looked "justifiable". Well I might be wrong.
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The problem is not what is legal or allowed according to some treaty, but what is actually happening. The issue is that if one country uses nukes simply as a massive artillery shell, then there is absolutely nothing stopping other countries from doing the same thing.
Now the reason why this didn't happen with the war against Japan was because the nuclear bomb was completely new at the time of use, and because it wasn't actually the reason for America defeating Japan -- it was simply a way to a) save the US army the human cost of invasion and b) to show everyone else how powerful we are. So it was a special case, and not used as a normal weapon. But in Korea MacArthur would have used many nuclear bombs in the same way that he used conventional bombs.
That is the kind of thing that really needs to be avoided.