Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test
by arethuza on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:59AM
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Soviet generals were all for a war with the US at the time of the Cuban Missile crisis even though they knew they'd come off very badly. I don't think there was anything unusually irrational about them - people just do crazy things in situations like that.
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Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test
by chefkoch on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:31AM
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Because they thought the US would nuke them first.
And from what i read there we're enough crazy generals who wanted to exactly do that during the cold war.
Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test
by arethuza on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:41AM
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Absolutely, a lot of people wanted a "preventative" war against the Soviet Union notably Curtis LeMay:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/06/19/the-general-an...
I've even had people on HN arguing with me that such a war was the "rational" thing to do - which I found rather disturbing, to say the least.