At the risk of being blocked, I'd like to suggest the @nybooks find another nuclear history reviewer besides Thomas Powers...@GordinMichael or @wellerstein for example would bring a fresher and more informed perspective
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The review has Ellsberg talking about LeMay's wish for "one bomb, for all of Russia" but says SAC never pursued this. True?
He says that Sam Cohen (problematic neutron-bomb inventor guy) told him that he was at a meeting where LeMay said that. It sounds like a bad joke by LeMay, not a serious "ask."
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Interesting. I've found the inclusion of Cohen here problematic because I see SC as such a weird outlier who wasn't listened to. AmIRite?
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FWIW, you can't do one bomb for all of Russia — at least not selectively. You could make a bomb that made the entire northern hemisphere deadly. But not *just* Russia.
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Russia & China?
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If you have a weapon that can take out all of Russia in one boom it is also going to contaminate Europe and North America, too, is what I mean. True Doomsday Bomb. SAC not interested in overt suicide bomb — they believed nuclear war could be fought and won.
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