We have only seen the use of nukes in a military capacity once in our lifetimes, in the cowardly act of the Yanks against an enemy which was entirely on the ropes at the time they were deployed.
They mostly serve as a deterrent and, to some degree, for power projection over non-nuclear states.
I am not in the business of making forecasts but I struggle to foresee a situation where a nuclear power would nuke its own citizens in a revolutionary moment.
I wouldn't overstate the importance of nukes tbh.
We have only seen the use of nukes in a military capacity once in our lifetimes, in the cowardly act of the Yanks against an enemy which was entirely on the ropes at the time they were deployed.
They mostly serve as a deterrent and, to some degree, for power projection over non-nuclear states.
I am not in the business of making forecasts but I struggle to foresee a situation where a nuclear power would nuke its own citizens in a revolutionary moment.