"The Nuclear Plan to Decapitate Russia and China" Topic

…(and the Planet)

"On June 16, the 92-year-old Daniel Ellsberg passed away. At RAND, he contributed to a top-secret 47-volume study of classified documents on the Vietnam War. Even though the war had been acknowledged to be �unwinnable� since the 1950s, successive presidents from Eisenhower to Nixon had lied about the conflict.

As Ellsberg released copies of the classified documents, the 7,000 pages became known as the "Pentagon Papers.� However, from 1958 to 1971, his primary job had been as a nuclear war planner for Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations…"

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Armand

Nobody should want nuclear war- but I think some of the ecological impacts in articles like this are speculative and probably exaggerated. There were something like 2,000 open-air nuclear tests before the Test Ban Treaty- and here we still are.

OTOH, I think people tend to underestimate the scale of immediate blast, thermal and radiation effects, particularly for higher-yield weapons.

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Armand

I am dubious about the author's affiliations.