re: How insane were Douglas McArthur and Curtis LeMay?

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Yeah and if we dropped fricking 50 of them during Korea what message does it send to the word about the acceptability of using nuclear weapons in a non total war scenario?

Maybe try thinking more than two steps in front of you.

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Well, using that reasoning if we were willing to drop 50 on Korea , seems like overkill, then we would be willing to drop 50 on any nation that even tried to develop their own nuclear weapons, thereby insuring that only we had the capability to do so.

I mean logically speaking, we could have dropped atomic weapons on Moscow immediately after WWII and avoided the Cold War altogether.

I'm not advocating that this is what we should have done, I'm simply saying IF we had of.