It's deceiving to say that a US-led attack on Soviet Union (even a nuclear one) was out of the realm of possibility at the time. The author forgets about the n

It's deceiving to say that a US-led attack on Soviet Union (even a nuclear one) was out of the realm of possibility at the time. The author forgets about the nuclear weapons race, and the fact that most people in power were very much alive and kicking when the US used 2 nuclear weapons on Japan, as a first strike, and not even out of necessity. Also the influence of the computer is probably exaggerated.