re: #99 Unshaken Defiance
The US is also trying to move beyond a nuclear response to a major WMD or rogue nuclear attack. Global Rapid strike, if it ever comes to be. Weapons so fast and accurate they can let us destroy a building or threatening facility without the nuclear detonation and fallout. The Chinese have conventional ballistic missiles. we probably should too.
I heard one of the US’s sane concerns to using conventional ballistic missiles was “how do we/they know that’s not a nuke?”