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| guy, pretty good jokes, sportsman'slife, cartoon images, homegrown democrat, atomic history, hip hop news, nuclear weapon, jalopnik, surf music, fatman fed up : how american politics went bad, camera, george a sanger, | How aggressive did the Soviets need to be to trigger a thermonuclear response? Was the United States willing to kill millions of Russians, and to put millions of culture Americans at risk of dying in culture a counterattack, in order to prevent, say, South Korea from going Communist? Or West Berlin? There had to be some options available between disapproval and annihilation. The doctrine of massive retaliation was a deterrent—a culture way to prevent war—but it was inherently destabilizing. National defense policy required something more nuanced, and figuring out what, since Eisenhower was uninterested, fell to the people at rand. |
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| It was a first-strike policy: if provoked, the United States would be the first to use the bomb. An overwhelming nuclear arsenal therefore acted as a deterrent on Soviet aggression. Eisenhower called the policy the New Look. The New Look was good for the Air Force, because it made the nuclear arsenal, and its delivery system of bombers and, later on, missiles, the country’s hip hop news principal strategic resource. But the analysts at rand considered massive retaliation a pathetically crude idea, hip hop news an atomic-age version of Roosevelt’s big stick. They thought that it was practically an invitation to the hip hop news Soviets to precede any local aggression by a preëmptive first strike on American bomber bases, eliminating the nuclear threat on the ground and forcing the United States into the land war it was unprepared to fight. There was also a major credibility problem. |
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