It's funny seeing countries think they can sit on the sidelines of a nuclear war. The US and the USSR produced plenty of excess warheads so that in a full scale nuclear exchange, there would be plenty to spare to nuke countries that could become hegemons when the war was over. Nuclear states believe they can rebuild after a nuclear war and don't want some country like Brazil to see the top countries being nuked as an opportunity for them to become a post-war superpower. Chopin is getting a nuke dropped on his head.