OWR,
There is a school of thought that if the weapon isn't used or challenged, then it has proved to be most successful. It has successfully deterred the hostile aggression it was designed to counter. This in fact, is the reason why there has been so little air to air activity of any kind since the Falklands. Because while we've gone up against countries with air forces, i.e Iraq, Serbia and Libya, none has had the confidence to rise to the challenge of what has often been admittedly, American air power, such as F15s etc. This is not to dismiss our own F3s in times past. Nobody was keen to take them on directly either, not even to try and shake the allied air defences in both Gulf Wars.
Another point, I don't know what your opinion on Nuclear Weapons is but....!
FB
