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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 30 November 2015 03:14:02AM *  1 point [-]

While it is true that the threat of the Japanese Empire was successfully ended, it inevitably spawned a dozen other problems in other scenarios. Most notably, it paved the way for the Cold War.

In the sense that Communism and the Free World wound up crashing once the common enemy was removed, yes. Your argument about nuclear weapons seems to boil down to arguing that if the US hadn't developed them, no one else would have. I'll let you clarify in case it's something not quite this silly.

let's say the U.S. gets fed up with the situation and drops nukes on strategic Iraqi and Syrian cities.

You don't have to go that far. How about having the government not treat rumors that an interrogator may have flushed a Koran down the toilet as a moral crisis.

Next thing you know, Iran will panic and get its own nukes,

Um, Iran is already developing nukes as fast as it can, despite the US not being very brutal.

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