About when did a US/CCCP war become suicidal?

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Peter Skelton writes:
On 24 Feb 2004 21:50:10 -0800, (WaltBJ)
wrote:

2) I should think doctrine on the possible use of nuclear weapons took
a serious hit when a real sober look was taken of the two nuclear
accidents the USSR experienced - Chelyabinsk and Chernobyl. The USSR
never ever achieved the capability to feed all its people from its own
resources and what fallout from numerous nuclear weapons would do to
the arable lands of the Ukraine really doesn't bear thinking about.

The doctrine was gone by 1975. What we saw after that was
think-tank blather about the possibility of nuclear war without
escallation. Examples: on our side the potential use of
battlefield weapons in Europe (we'd had them earlier and
withdrawn all except tactical nukes on figfhter-bombers, IIRC) on
theirs taking out naval assets (they went for really big ASMs
instead or after).

Uhm - _that_ didn't happen until 1990-91, with the adoption of the
Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty. Europe, on both sidea of the
East/West divide, all through the '60s, '60s, and '80s was a forest of
nuclear warheads and delivery systems. In addition to the airplane
delivered weapons, there were, througn most of the '60s, a huge number
of Mace (TM-61) Cruise missiles. There were scade of short range
ballistic missiles, originally Redstones & Corporals, then Pershing &
Sergeants, and, finally, Pershings & Pershing IIs, and Lances.
Ballistic That doesn't count the battlefield systems like the Honest
John Rockets and AFAPs (Artillery Fired Atomic Projectiles).
Most of these systems, on the NATO side, were developed in the U.S.,
but the French had also developed theirs. (MSBS, SSBS, and Pluton).
In the case of systems fieldsd by NATO partners, (With the exception
of the wholly autonomous French systems, and hte Brits), the warheads
were held in a Dual Custody arrangement, as U.S. owned and secured
weapons, where their release required the agreement of the
U.S. Nactional Command Authority (Warhead), and the Host nation;s
Government (delivery System). If things had turned nasty before the
Iron Curtain fell, there would have been Germans, Belgians, Dutch,
Italians, Turks, and Greeks all firing off nukes.

The Warsaw Pact side had similar systems, and similar command
arrangements.

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