Howard Berkowitz wrote:

:I would agree, Fred, that the first NATO use of nuclear weapons indeed
:might be to take out chokepoints such as bridges and mountain passes.
:Perhaps I didn't make it clear that when I spoke of crossing the nuclear
:threshold, I believe that threshold would first have been crossed by the
:Warsaw Pact, principally to isolate the battlefield and hard-kill air
:support and C3I in preparation for the major ground attack.

I always considered that they'd paste such things with persistent
chemicals, instead. Kill all the depots that way. While we sometimes
claim that we would go nuclear in the face of a chemical attack, would
we really have done it?

I'm unconvinced we would have done so against the Soviet Union.

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