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Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test by chefkoch on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:31AM (#25137838)
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.
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Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test by arethuza on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:41AM (#25137980)
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.

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