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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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...
