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Fred J. McCall wrote:

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.

If the USSR was into the realm of dropping planeloads of chemicals on
depots and such, it's hard to imagine that the war wouldn't have crossed
into the "screw 'em, what have we got ready to launch?" phase.

They built tactical nukes for a *reason*, you know.

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