We all known what happened in Operation Detachment (OOC: the actual codename for the Iwo Jima invasion), when the United Nations unleashed the USAF's B-29 bombers against Communist Chinese targets in both Korea and the Chinese mainland. The effects of this certainly retarded Chinese advancement, I think today they could have been a major emerging world power, instead of only just becoming a major regional economic power. Who knows, today we could have lived in a world where most things were made in China! Still I must say that the Beijing 2008 Olympics were great, China has clearly moved put the events of the "nuclear winter" of 1950-51 behind her.
You may think I am off my rocker by now, but I will also venture to guess if nukes had not been used in 1950-51, they would not have been used in Hungary in 1956 either. Or with the rather less success they enjoyed in Afghanistan, terrain is terriain.
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