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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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."
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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You could make much bigger bombs than the US or USSR fielded — thousands of megatons. Delivery becomes difficult. Eisenhower's USAF rejected gigaton bombs as not useful.pic.twitter.com/hRaL6633Zd
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