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Dr. Charles Kupperman, Bolton's new deputy national security advisor, in the fall of 1981 on whether a nuclear war with the Soviet Union could be won. Short answer: "I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but.."
https://www.amazon.com/Enough-Shovels-Reagan-Bush-Nuclear/dp/0394414829 … @Robert_Scheerpic.twitter.com/bbLfusMtpr
Kupperman is also a former board member of the Center for Security Policy (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/06/the-report-on-global-jihad-co-authored-by-a-senior-nsc-official/561680/ …) and is currently a member of the board of directors of the National Institute for Public Policy http://www.nipp.org/professional-staff/board-of-advisors/ …
I find the premise of this book...lacking.
You hope he mellowed since then?
"Hair mussed" = how many millions of Americans dead? Isn't that a line from Dr Strangelove.
He wouldn't like it but he inspired, along with others, an entire generation of anti-nuclear weapons activists in Europe, including me.
It may be representative of his attitude expressed elsewhere, but that's not a fair representation of the question and answer you share in the photographs.
I don’t see what he said from your excerpt that was crazy or extreme. He said depending on the way the war is fought, the casualties could vary from 150M to 20M. I don’t know about 150M, but I think we could definitely absorb 20M and still function as a 21st century society.
This estimation is extremely ignorant even by 1981 standards. Nuclear War is a Zero Sum game. There's no managing the amount of casualties-not to mention w/ tactical nukes detonated in low orbit strategically they'd render the entire U.S. uninhabitable for the next millennium.
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