Chad Irby wrote:

:In article ,
: 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.

Yes, they did, and the Soviets had their share of them. Would we have
fired the first one in response to a chemical attack in the face of
"if you shoot a nuke, we'll empty our magazines back at you after YOUR
first use"?

I still don't think so, unless there wasn't another choice.

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