MAD: Really?

Sachyriel

Banned
Alright, just wondering, if a conventional world war broke out after 1950, who would be insane to start the nukes off first?
 
Whoever is the first to face a major invasion will launch their nukes, never ever ever corner someone, because they will bark and bite their way out.
 
Whoever is the first to face a major invasion will launch their nukes, never ever ever corner someone, because they will bark and bite their way out.

Agreed; once the conventional war starts going badly for one side or the other the temptation to use nukes will start to grow. If you're going to lose the war anyway you might as well take the other side down with you.
 
The USSR in the '50s has such a nuclear inferiority that it isn't funny (30 fission bombs versus 1,200 for the US in 1953, when conflict over Korea was the most likely) and delivery systems to match (~1,200 Tu-4s (cheap reverse-engineered B-29s, basically), of which less than a hundred were nuclear-capable Tu-4As). Unless they're totally insane, they won't initiate a nuclear war.
 
Alright, just wondering, if a conventional world war broke out after 1950, who would be insane to start the nukes off first?

I don't think MAD became a reality until well after the Cuban Missile Crisis. There is an excellent thread on the Cuban Missile War, it doesn't end with MAD but a world in pieces.
 

Sachyriel

Banned
...People...it's an alternate history site...

Something other than a Cold War Wank!

Japan gets nukes, Australia nukes so-and-so...

Cuba Hijacks Soviet Missiles, Nuclear Sub, and then threatens world with contaminated Atlantic.

I just want to see if you can make it non-asb that conventional war ends in nuclear war without ASBs. I don't care if you go from Steampunk mechs to Atomic mechs... they're mechs, and it's totally cool. Giant Robots can be built, it's not too ASB...ASB is 5000 mechs.
 
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