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Gman

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8. The US likely had a similar model that was also

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Sat Oct 31, 2015, 09:16 AM

Oct 2015

Predicting dire results because of Soviet responses to their perceptions and models. To any model results you have to reason as a human if it makes sense. Whatever the reason the Lt. Gen. decided not to act, from the limited info in the article, I'd argue that deterrence and MAD worked, even if it was inadvertent. Obviously the best scenario for all sides is no nukes. But in the bellicose ways of the WWII generation that was in power at the time, MAD and deterrence was the best strategies, if anything because they were the only strategies.

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