Originally Posted by
tartare
I don't understand?
You mean fallout potentially blowing across NATO member states constitutes an attack on them?
Ukraine isn't a NATO member.
I wouldn't anticipate an overwhelming conventional weapon response from the whole of NATO in response to Russia using a small weapon in Ukraine.
But I could imagine a whole series of very serious non-kinetic reprisals by many member states.
And the US and close allies taking the lead on grey warfare (cables, pipelines, Internet access etc).
And escalating the supply of weaponry even further to Ukraine in order for them to respond kinetically...
Have no doubt that there are already drafted "if... then..." options for each scenario as FDR outlines.
Using Nuke/nukes in Europe alone is a deceleration of war, using them on humanity alone is bad enough, hense why it not happened since 45,
the threat of it is bad enough.
and the worst part arguably is the radiation, and its effects, so a nuclear "incident" a power station will, be treated near the same threat (response) level.