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I really can't see battlefield nukes ever being used either, barring some desperate "USA is going to disappear unless we do this" type of threat.
Nukes carry so much political and environmental baggage (both perceived and real) that the stakes would have to be a lot higher that just catching a guy in a mountain, IMO.
ICBMs at least fit into the MAD idea in a way that battlefield weapons don't - Launch a battlefield nuke, and you get all the public outrage an ICBM would cause, and you probably could have done the job with conventional weapons anyway.
And battlefield weapons don't deter countries like the big missiles do (or did, anyway).
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