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To: jlallen who wrote (2378)	2/18/2002 12:28:29 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

There is no way of calculating so far in advance what would happen, especially if they refused to capitulate on the basis of Hiroshima sized blasts. Remember, Hiroshima and Nagasaki involved less than 200,000 fatalities. If we had to take out Shanghai to get capitulation, that would probably involve a couple of million, and it quickly adds up. Then, even with capitulation, we would have had to guarantee relative stability and prosperity, otherwise millions would die in a return to warlordism and abject poverty, lack of medical attention and starvation. We also had to guarantee that the revulsion of the American public would not produce civil disturbance in this country, or revulsion among our allies would not cause a coalition to be mounted against us. So it is too speculative to be the basis for engaging in thermonuclear war.......

To: jlallen who wrote (2378)	2/18/2002 12:48:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7720

I see that Neo gave you my answer already. To have destroyed world wide communism with nukes we would have had to have killed a lot of people. Also it is uncertain how much sucess we would have had even with a monopoly on nukes. One study from when we had a nuclear monopoly but when after our post WWII demobilization determined that if the Soviets wanted to they could have taken Western Europe, even if they would have lost Moscow, Lenningrad, Stalingrad and several other cities. Tim