Absolutely, a lot of people wanted a "preventative" war against the Soviet Union notably Curtis LeMay: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/06/19/the-genera

Absolutely, 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.