Apparently, I am, I should admit, facing a well-educated person, and for the first time on "Slate"; and I hope I wouldn’t be misunderstood, because all I am seeking here is enriching knowledge and that light should be focussed on all topics, without any form of chauvinism, and as openly as possible of course.

A defeat is a defeat be it the result of a conventional war or not.

The only difference is that those who possess a nuclear arsenal often tend to use it when they feel their army is on the brink of a bitter defeat, if not humiliating, the case for USA when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki is more telling; it’s a mere act of revenge, or at least that is my perception of how the U.S. responded to that act, Pearl Harbour’s Perfidious attack.

A foreigner, really curious.