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Because they thought the US would nuke them first. And from what i read there we're enough crazy generals who wanted to exactly do that during the cold war.
by chefkoch 6y ago
Because they thought the US would nuke them first.
And from what i read there we're enough crazy generals who wanted to exactly do that during the cold war.
- arethuza 6y agoAbsolutely, a lot of people wanted a "preventative" war against the Soviet Union notably Curtis LeMay: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/06/19/the-general-and-world-war-iii https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/06/19/the-general-an... I've even had people on HN arguing with me that such a war was the "rational" thing to do - which I found rather disturbing, to say the least.