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> Nobody launched any nukes at the US. You're right about Korea being a limited war. Both sides had protected rear areas that were vital to the war, and were
by bdunbar 14y ago
> Nobody launched any nukes at the US.
You're right about Korea being a limited war. Both sides had protected rear areas that were vital to the war, and were careful not to step over the line.
However the USSR had only tested their first a-bomb in 1949, and their strategic delivery systems were .. minimal .. for years after that.
- adventured 14y agoI was thinking more along the lines of Russia using short range nuclear weapons as a threat in Europe and Korea against both US forces and allies. Since Russia had the bomb in 1949, and was designing the R7 in 1953, I suspect they had the ability to put a nuke on top of a short or medium range missile before the end of the Korean war, and of course at the least deliver a nuke via bomber (not to the continental US necessarily, although there was the concept of using the pole as the route to do it via one way trip; I have no idea if the Soviet bombers had range for a one way trip in 1953).