PP,
I like your thinking. Nihilistic existentialism is probably ill-suited to most on here though, so stand by for further incoming.
TOFO,
Thanks for the heads up, I appreciate the forum is frequented by the parochial.
I wouldn't personally give it a name, if I did it wouldn't be as long or difficult to spell as Nihilistic existentialism.
I'd sooner call it logical thinking.
Whether you're facing a country with 10 or 10,000 nukes, you're equally as screwed in an all out war. After 10 have landed & gone BANG, I'm sure you're not too anxious about the remaining 9,990.
So why worry about 10,096???
Like I said, let the clowns at the top make their decisions (they will anyway) & just crack on with life. Getting in to a worried state about a future capability is bordering on the pathetic when you look at the context of it all.
The clowns in 'govern'ment rely on our fear, without it they have no purpose.