Nope, not just all your perception (although the "prepared to strike" ones were split between the "and also protect the population" types, and starting with JFK

Nope, not just all your perception (although the "prepared to strike" ones were split between the "and also protect the population" types, and starting with JFK and Robert Strange McNamara, the truly MAD ones (Mutual Assured Destruction, which to take a riff from Doctor Strangelove, would have worked a lot better if the Soviets accepted it, instead of correctly thinking it was profoundly immoral)). The question here, is what side do you think the "Inspired Nineteen Eighty Four!" BBC was on?