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Originally Posted by FOG3
Didn't I say as much?
I just question whether the use of ER tac nukes to take out armored columns at the gap would directly transfer over to use of strategic nuclear weapons. For starters they're hitting military as opposed to civilian targets, and if they did cross the gap they'd have to recognize the possibility of them being used as they at least were there. Plus if the strategic nuclear weapons are launched you automatically enter MAD conditions, but tac nukes not necessarily so.
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According to noted air defense/nuclear weapons expert Stuart Slade, it would escalate one step at a time to total global thermonuclear warfare.
At least.....it did in all the simulations the US did on the subject. Almost regardless of scenario, who, where, why....in any exchange between NATO/WP it ended the same.
They nuke our fwd defenses, we nuke their spearhead...they nuke our reserves we nuke their reserves...they nuke our airbases....we nuke their airbases.....right on up the line to total global thermonuclear war.
I can see it happenin' REAL easy.