If you're looking for a route to madness, try to spend a few days coming up with a solid list of *early* Soviet ICBM, bomber, and IRBM deployments. Some data is out there but not in the world's most useful form... 
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Early Soviet IRBM deployments were... impressive. Also interesting is how long the Soviets used old systems. US tended to phase systems in and out very quickly in early Cold War, as tech changed. Soviets fielded systems in 1950s and kept some in place until 1970s, apparently.
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Big shout out to
@russianforces 's book, and to the guy who runs this website (whose organization leaves much to be desired, but there is a LOT of data hidden inside its hundreds of pages): http://www.ww2.dk/new/newindex.htm …Show this thread -
As to the WHY: I am a guest curator for a new exhibit on the USS Growler opening this summer at the Intrepid Museum. We are working on a big, animated "early Cold War nuclear forces & conflicts" map. It is.. an optimistic endeavor! But it should be VERY cool, if it works.
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Goal is to show that the apparently static nature of the Cold War from 1945-1965 was anything but — lots of shifts of power, lots of proxy conflict (high and low level), and an expanding array of nukes, wrapping around the globe...
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I had "fun" tracking IRBM deployments in the Soviet Far East. The story of the missile base near Anadyr is particularly interesting.
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The R-12/SS-4s weren't fully replaced even at INF, were they?
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