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Default It's so...uplifting...

On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:08:13 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:15:57 -0400, Poco Loco
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:34:52 -0400,
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There is no such thing as a defensive nuke


As a matter of fact, part of the planning to stop a Soviet Invasion of Europe through the Fulda Gap
included the use of defensive nukes to form barriers.


That was insanity not strategy.
It sounds like the same people who described Europe as a place where
towns were 2 kilotons apart.


These would have been between 10 tons and 1 kiloton. Itty bitty nukes. Here's some info on same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...ition_Munition

We actually had those down at the Engineer Battalion level.