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Originally Posted by GenjiChan
The problem was that the NK were in China's soil so nuking them is basically nuking China. If only they let some NKs back inside Korea then nuke them.... 
McArthur may have been too excited...  |
Even then, the problem is that once the US used nukes as if it was no big deal (Japan was a special case), it would set a bad precedent for other nuclear-armed countries whenever they fight wars. Imagine if we used nukes in Korea, then it would make sense to use them in Vietnam, and then when the Soviets wanted to use them in Afghanistan there would be nothing stopping them from doing it since if we were to condemn them it would be completely hypocritical.
Basically, it's good that countries don't see the nuclear bomb as a weapon that you can ever actually use.