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RVN VET71

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12. This is a bit off topic but Bertie was so disturbed by the Soviet Union's getting The Bomb

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #7)

Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:17 AM

Jul 15

that he endorsed the notion of a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the USSR. I think this was at a time when the Soviet nuclear arms program was still in its infancy and the idea of pre-emptive strike did not same as horribly outrageous as it later did. The idea was to kill the infant (the Soviet nuclear arms program) before it could grow into a monster.

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