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Recently on NPR they were playing a previously recorded interview withRobert S. McNamara http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106293462who has recently passed away. At one point in the interview he says “You have no idea how close we were to nuclear war in the 1960’s”. Well, what would happen in there was a nuclear war in the 1960’s between the eastern-block nations and the USA? Given the nuclear arsenal that existed at the time, how devastating would such a war be? What nations would survive? Would any? Who devastated would the environment be?