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Why do you say "insane"? It seems more than sane to me. And the fact that no nuclear war did occur is at least arguably a fact in its favor.And what evidence is there to support the idea that the Soviets would have "won" a nuclear war in the 1970s (even if we assume that "winning" such a fight were possible)? Everything we supposedly knew about the strategic and technical threats posed by the Soviet Union after 1945 has proved to be a mirage. The threat was more Soviet bluff aided and abetted by the US military's insatiable appetite for ever larger budgets. Remember the Bomber Gap, the Missile Gap, the massive Soviet armored superiority that was supposed to overrun NATO in hours, the infamous Reagan-era comic books showing Soviet super weapons? Soviet-era systems inevitably proved inferior to Western equivalents, particularly when it came to reliability, which I would think would be a critical issue with strategic systems. The reason is essentially the same for the Soviets as for the Nazis: inadequate industrial base and lack of economic resources. The USSR was--and is--essentially a poor country where what wealth is available is invariably looted by the kleptocracy, thus keeping the economy poor while squandering the indisputable imagination and enterprise of its engineers and thinkers.
Why do you say "insane"? It seems more than sane to me. And the fact that no nuclear war did occur is at least arguably a fact in its favor.
And what evidence is there to support the idea that the Soviets would have "won" a nuclear war in the 1970s (even if we assume that "winning" such a fight were possible)? Everything we supposedly knew about the strategic and technical threats posed by the Soviet Union after 1945 has proved to be a mirage. The threat was more Soviet bluff aided and abetted by the US military's insatiable appetite for ever larger budgets. Remember the Bomber Gap, the Missile Gap, the massive Soviet armored superiority that was supposed to overrun NATO in hours, the infamous Reagan-era comic books showing Soviet super weapons? Soviet-era systems inevitably proved inferior to Western equivalents, particularly when it came to reliability, which I would think would be a critical issue with strategic systems. The reason is essentially the same for the Soviets as for the Nazis: inadequate industrial base and lack of economic resources. The USSR was--and is--essentially a poor country where what wealth is available is invariably looted by the kleptocracy, thus keeping the economy poor while squandering the indisputable imagination and enterprise of its engineers and thinkers.
