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Comment by spacebanana7

The USA did it against Japan. Of course those were special circumstances, but all wars have their own set of special circumstances to some extent.

There’s also the argument that using nuclear weapons make sense when a nuclear state has a weaker conventional force that its opponent. Russia still has a pretty strong conventional force, but for example North Korea is in this position against most likely adversaries.

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