Originally Posted by
Time Commander Bob
Here is another example of how a nuclear strike could occur when both sides have nuclear armaments. Say country A and B are both rivals, have had conventional wars in the past and both have nuclear weapons poised to strike at each other which apparently "keep the peace". Lets suppose that country A is a reasonable, honourable country that only seeks peace but nevertheless cannot stand country B as it is known to be an unreasonable country known to use dirty tactics and intimidate its neighbours. However, the citizens in country B are not evil and many feel oppressed by the current regime (just like German citizens during WW2 were not all evil even when its government was). Suppose that country B also secretly supports terrorist organisations whose wish it is to kill the citizens of country A. This terrorist organisation is now able to deliver a nuclear strike to the heart of country A if country B secretly supplies it with a nuclear weapon. Country A would get nuked and be unable to respond, even if they did find out that country B was ultimately responsible as such a response would mean that country B would be able to unleash the rest of its nuclear arsenal onto country A, not to mention such a response strike would cause millions of innocent deaths of civilians in country B that were not responsible.