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Former sec of state Dean Acheson argued beforehand that a potential Berlin conflict would lead to a conventional ground war as neither power would be willing to risk millions of its own population's lives through MAD. What if he was right and a conventional war had blown up over Berlin? How would it play out? Who would win? What would the aftermath be like?