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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Russia & China?
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.
