lets say you are the president of the unites states and also a father of a couple of children.
For some reason your childre is visiting china or russia and at the same time that they are there a war breaks out. You know that the only way to save america is to completely destroy the other country with nuclear weapons. But in doing so you doom your children.
Would you sacrifice your children to save millions of people in your country(assuming mutual assured destruction isnt certain and that you can completely crippel the other nations launch capability with a massive nuclear strike).![]()