Re:A new biography of John von Neumann
by sudosysgen on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:43AM
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I'd suggest you look over the distance from the USSR to the USA to see how such an attack would have played out. There was no such possibility u til ICBMs at which time MAD was a thing.
It makes no sense to preemptively strike them. It's a monstrous instinct.
On what basis would one assume that the Soviets would not initiate an attack as soon as they could? In an extreme, but very much possible at the time view of the world, it was a either-or question which power remains - in that context it very much makes sense to preemptively strike them, even if that is a hard and brutal decision.