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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (426899)10/15/2008 9:00:50 PM
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>>> Because the Soviet Union realized what it really meant.

If MAD was working, the missiles would never have been in Cuba to begin with.

According to Robt. McNamara in the excellent documentary, "The Fog of War", Castro was TELLING Russia to hit America with the nukes that were already on the island, even though it would have meant absolute destruction of Cuba.

Castro was willing to give it ALL up for Russia to have nuked America. So, just how well did MAD work? We were extremely lucky.

This is precisely why Reagan believed MAD was a totally insane policy, and why he established (before taking office) that it made moral sense to defend ourselves from attack RATHER than to avenge an attack after the fact.

Had Reagan not intervened and brought MAD to an end, there is no telling what the world would look like today. Absolutely no telling.
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