I guess I should be more exact. We [allied powers] have more working nukes than them. Working as in launchable. Not sitting in a warehouse. Nukes as in nuclear devices that reliably detonate. One nuke will do X dmg depending on size but it's not enough to destroy most cities.
In the end the point was no one is willing to destroy themselves over this. They started the war, they escalated. We are only responding appropriately.
If somehow in fantasy land they do, then let's all die. I refuse to live in a world that dictators and communists can scream nukes and do whatever they want against us.
Are you sure about that?
Fat man -- code name for the US bomb detonated over Nagasaki in 1945. From an altitude of 1,650 feet, the bomb was dropped and detonated. Due to cloud cover the bomb missed its intended detonation point by almost two miles, so the damage was somewhat less extensive than that in Hiroshima.
Blast yield: 21 kilotons of TNT
An estimated 35,000–40,000 people were killed outright by the bombing at Nagasaki.
A total of 60,000–80,000 fatalities resulted, including from long-term health effects,
the strongest of which was leukemia with an attributable risk of 46% for bomb victims.[59]
Others died later from related blast and burn injuries, and hundreds more from
radiation illnesses from exposure to the bomb's initial radiation.[60] Most of the direct
deaths and injuries were among munitions or industrial workers.[61]
Mitsubishi's industrial production in the city was severed by the attack; the dockyard
would have produced at 80 percent of its full capacity within three to four months, the
steelworks would have required a year to get back to substantial production, the electric
works would have resumed some production within two months and been back at
capacity within six months, and the arms plant would have required 15 months to return
to 60 to 70 percent of former capacity. The Mitsubishi-Urakami Ordnance Works, which
manufactured the Type 91 torpedoes released in the attack on Pearl Harbor, was
destroyed in the blast.[61][62]
Little Boy -- code name for the US bomb detonated over Hiroshima in 1945.
Blast yield: 15 kilotons of TNT
The detonation happened at an altitude of 1,968 ± 50 feet (600 ± 15 m). It
was less powerful than the Fat Man, which was dropped on Nagasaki, but
the damage and the number of victims at Hiroshima were much higher, as
Hiroshima was on flat terrain, while the hypocenter of Nagasaki lay in a
small valley.
According to figures published in 1945, 66,000 people were killed as a direct
result of the Hiroshima blast, and 69,000 were injured to varying degrees.[40]
Later estimates put the deaths as high as 140,000 people.[41] The United States
Strategic Bombing Survey estimated that out of 24,158 Imperial Japanese Army
soldiers in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing, 6,789 were killed or missing
as a result of the bombing.[42]
Those 2 bombs yielded 15 & 21 kilotons, destroyed the two largest industrialized cities in Japan during the height of WWII, and are the only 2 nukes ever used on a population center. Hundreds of thousands of people died, and the industrial factories churning out war related weapons, parts and machines were destroyed.
The largest nuke the US has tested yielded 15 megatons in 1954. Current warheads are estimated to generate in the range of 15-25
megatons.
Do that math. And here's a hint:
1 kiloton = An explosive force equivalent to that of 1,000 metric tons of TNT.
1 megaton = An explosive force equivalent to that of 1,000,000 metric tons of TNT.
A single megaton is equal to 1,000 kilotons. Thus, a 15 MT nuke is 1,000 times more powerful than a 15 KT nuke.
The lagest nuke we ever tested was 1,000 times more powerful than Little Boy. That one test nuke could have destroyed 1,000 Hiroshima size cities. What we have in our arsenal can take out any city we want with just one warhead.
Russia's lagest test nuke was 50 MT in 1990.
Get some facts before you post more nonsense.