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I too agree. There's no way any Soviet nuclear attack on US soil NOT attract a full US counterstrike. :eek:

The more important question, however, is: why would the Sovs go for such a strike in the first place? :confused::cool:

Marc A
Honestly no idea

At the time the USSR pushing too hard was a dumb idea, they could give the USA a bloody nose, the USA could destroy the USSR in ways the Nazis could only dream of, something like 2000 nukes in the counterstrike
 

Abhakhazia

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Soviet Union thinks they can take the US out because they have to deal with race riots and a second reconstruction.
 
Soviet Union thinks they can take the US out because they have to deal with race riots and a second reconstruction.
Not gonna happen, the USSR can get the US with something like 20 nukes, closer to two

The USSR would get about 2,000

They aren't dumb enough to push things like that, and if they did they would go all out in the first strike, as the US sure would in the second, once the bombs start falling LeMay will throw everything he has at the USSR and the POTUS can't stop it in time the way SAC is set up

So long story short the USSR is not that dumb and all this trouble does not significantly affect SAC, maybe Russia gets only 1,000 nukes instead of 2,000, they still die
 
The Soviets wouldn't have bombed the U.S., they would have merely put pressure on Berlin and a few other places while the U.S. is distracted.
 
The former Marine uncle who told me about it has been dead for many years, unfortunately. I'll see if I can find another source.

1) That makes me even more suspicious it's a folk etymology, as the sources found (note I'd link but my phone doesn't seem to like doing that) agree that it's origins are from a hippy poet.

2) Former or retired. If your uncle was the latter, he'd quickly correct you on the former...
 
He has an open invitation, then. I'd love to see him again.

Not sure if you missed it, but the terms former Marine and ex-Marine imply a less than honorable discharge. (Source = my own uncle, a retired Marine, who corrected me on it long ago in typically "colorful" language.)
 
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