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Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by hef19898 on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:31AM (#38304922)
NATO had plans to defend against the Warsaw oact, NATO had plans to invade them. And the other way round, nothing special about it.
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Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by arethuza on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:48AM (#38305177)
Real problems can occur when you only have one plan:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB130/

Particularly if that plan, as Daniel Ellsberg described, would kill about a billion people.

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Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by hef19898 on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:49AM (#38305190)
Basically THE plan then?
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Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by Vecr on Friday November 17, 2023 @11:39AM (#38305944)
SIOP, the Single Integrated Operation Plan.
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Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by grotorea on Friday November 17, 2023 @12:57PM (#38307287)
NATO had invasion plans? I thought the plans were defensive since the Warsaw Pact was expected to have a superior land force.
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Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by hef19898 on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:40PM (#38307973)
As hypotheticals, sure they did. As they had for nuclear first strikes, again, bith sides.
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Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of by antifa on Saturday November 18, 2023 @12:06AM (#38315531)
The best defense is a good offense.
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