War... War definitely changes

Doesn't mean it'll always turn out like that though

But it also means that the scenario of mass retaliation against strategic strikes may not turn out that way either. One is based affirmative in evidence, the other is based in the fact that anything is statistically possible even if improbable. By the same token a nuclear denial tool or more powerful weapon could also be invented before then mitigating or removing current nuclear weapons as a serious threat.

You are aware that radiation will move where the wind takes it, right?

I did not know that.

It also clings to dust and spreads with it, unless I've been lied to

When a strategic nuke goes off, it detonates high in the air. The explosion touches down and the low pressure zone created by the burst which pushed all the air up sucks in irradiated soil and ground debris. The rapidly heating air rises into that mushroom cloud, reaching high into the sky. The very fine particles of nuclear debris float up high, carried by winds or trapped in water vapor clouds become irradiated. When the debris fall on their own, or are carried down by rain they spread far and wide. Locally winds, humans, and animals carry radiated particles, dust, or even themselves. If they consumed irradiated substances they excrete them in their drippings to be eaten or tracked by others, or if radiated they leave radiated corpses which may be scavenged as food and further spread radiation. Falling particles are called fallout. The most dangerous and intense radiation fades pretty quickly, but the low level radiation lasts very long and is especially hazardous if ingested.

lol didn't realize that