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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (4797)	5/1/2005 8:55:24 PM
From: TimF	of 7936

A Warsaw Pact invasion of W. Germany would have resulted in tactical nukes very quickly. It had too- -NATO was heavily outnumbered, particularly in armor. The only way to stop them was to nuke the armies. The USSR said if nukes were used on Warsaw Pact troops, it would launch. That would be when the Warsaw pact would be "actually starting to invade", not them using nukes just because an invasion failed. NATO's possible use of nukes would be exactly what I was talking about not some contrary example. Also I'm not so sure it would have resulted in tactical nukes being used quickly or NATO quickly being rolled up if it stayed conventional. The Warsaw Pact had a numerical advantage overall, and a big numerical advantage in tanks but it had serious disadvantages as well. Fortunately it didn't happen even if that means we don't get to find out how it would turn out. Tim

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