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Let's take a look at a comprehensive list of countries that have used nukes against others:
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Based on this, we conclude that the US is less likely to use nukes against others. I'm very smart
Not only that but the US spent the entirety of the Cold War trying to either use nukes again or find some way to deploy nukes to every soldier and conflict possible, with everything from nuclear demolition charges to artillery shells
Given their way the US would arm every soldier with a nuclear rifle if they could
Oh they tried!
Many years ago at reddit - I saw that somebody had made a nuke "Davy Crockett" joke. For about 10 seconds I had this dialog with myself in my head "That can't be real. But could it? But it can't. Davy Crockett? How can that be real. I'm the world's dumbest man - I'll google." I still can't believe they named it Davy Crockett.
the US deployed backpack-sized nuclear weapons to Europe for decades as part of a stay-behind Gladio type operation, whose intent was to detonate nukes guerilla style in a Soviet-overrun Europe
The Littlest Boy | Foreign Policy
linking an archive because this article has suspiciously been removed from FP's website, just loads a blank page.
Let's also consider the stances of those countries on a nuclear first strike:
For fun, the other countries with nukes: