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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Politics, morals and nukes
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Steve, you have fallen into a common trap.  That is of assuming that
Soviet society and economy is similar to ours.  As I said before,
the US, if hit in a countervalue strike, would probably lose 90-94%
of our population, because we are so urbanized.  Our economy would
be totally destroyed, all forms of transport from farms (some which would
be intact) would be wiped out.  All major financial institutions
destroyed, and most communications shattered.  For the US, we would
cease to exist as a national entity.  I dont claim the US could
survive a Soviet countervalue strike.  The question is if the USSR
could,survive the US retaliatory strike and here
I believe it has a good chance of doing so.  I guess
I am saying that for the US, a nuclear war is unwinnable unless we could
prevent such a strike, which would be a very difficult thing to do
indeed.  



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