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What if the United States used its brief period of complete nuclear supremacy to stop the Cold War before it really started by absolutely annihilating the Soviet Union in nuclear fire?

I don't advocate that this is a good idea, but people did suggest it at the time, so I'm wondering what would happen if this admittedly somewhat implausible premise did go through?

"Russia is sure to learn soon how to make it. I think Stalin has inherited Hitler's ambition for world dictatorship. One must expect a war between USA and USSR, which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think this war will last thirty years and leave a world without civilized people, from which everything will have to be built afresh - a process taking (say) 500 years...There is one thing, and one only, which could save the world, and that is a thing I should not dream of advocating. It is that America should make war on Russia during the next two years, and establish a world empire by means of the atomic bomb." - Bertrand Russell
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