Eli5:Why do countries not formally declare war anymore?

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Eli5:Why do countries not formally declare war anymore?

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M.A.D. mutually assured destruction.

Since the invention of the nuclear bomb the idea of conventional warfare has all but evaporated. If it escalates it ends in mass death on both sides.

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