i'm not sure if the AI would know they'd get those repercussions. we can talk about them, but i'm not sure if a change is needed. it's been a while since i had a nuclear war though.
from what i know using nuclear weapons damages relationships with all civs. but i'm not so sure if the AI cares about maintaining relationships too much, which might be a problem.
The same USA citizens punished their government for Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
The first time this bombs were dropped, their effects weren't well known.
Maybe AFTER the first bombs, people may become aware. When fallout is spread.
He's taking the piss guys. Well played
@LukaSlovenia29, it took me a second to realize that too.
Also for what it's worth the circumstances of dropping the bombs was different from any nowadays. Here's the thing most people don't know: Japan knew they had lost since pearl harbor. Hell, Japan knew they lost since BEFORE pearl harbor. It was a last-dtich attempt that they thought had a 1% chance of working, because they were out of resources from China's scorched-earth tactics.
So the entirety of the fighting we did with Japan, their leadership knew it was only a matter of time. They were at every disadvantage possible. Technology, Numbers, Resources, Political, Location, etc. They weren't dumb, they knew they had lost, it's well documented.
So why did they fight? Honor, Pride and desperation. They considered Jingoism so important that the idea that they were stopped was worse than dying outright.
It wasn't just the soldiers. When the US took islands the Japanese women and non-combatants would often commit mass suicide. Sometimes they would jump off cliffs, but many times they charged tanks and trained troops with old pistols, knives and sharpened wooden sticks.
The scale of death that would have ensured if we actually needed to do a land invasion into the Japanese mainland is beyond imagination. It would literally be a genocide.
Nuking them wasn't our first choice either. We tried all sorts of conventional bombing. They knew they had lost for months. It had been confirmed over and over. We had been fire-bombing their wooden cities and were on their doorstep. Yet still they refused to surrender.
So to avoid a genocide we dropped a nuke, and still they refused to surrender, in the vain hope we only had ones. So we were forced to drop a second.
If you think for a second we were doing anything other than the LEAST violent solution, look at these pamphlets we were dropping:
https://www.atomicheritage.org/key-documents/warning-leaflets
https://www.atomicheritage.org/key-documents/warning-leaflets
There are questions about if the pamphlets made it to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but we tried. What kind of evil empire risks military advantage for a reason like this? Do you think Hitler would have dropped warning letters in London if he developed the first nukes?
You can criticize some actions of the US in WW2 (Using the Holocaust as a bargaining chip to extort Europe for example) but this is one of the clear cases of the US doing the right thing. Don't let our modern day military actions color your impressions. (Also most Americans disagree with our military polices right now. It's not representative of the people.)
Sorry if I sperged out a bit with history, but I'm so sick of people using the nukes we dropped against us. It's one of the things we did right.