NATO 1961 Catchup to the End

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The last entry was Warsaw Pack M+2 and things were looking very bleak for NATO. West Berlin had fallen, The Soviets had overrun Northern Germany after paving the way with Tac Nucs. Hamburg was surrounded and isolated. The Soviets had plenty of Tactical Nuclear delivery units/HQs, while the US/UK had been decimated. So NATO had 3 choices:

1. Continue the fight with its inevitable end in sight.

2. Offer a Cease Fire, which the Soviets would probably ignore, and end up surrendering.

3. Escalate the conflict to setup the US's remaining strong point - over 1300 bombers...

So the US decided to do a counterforce strike to take out the Soviet strategic Nuclear assets - a handful of ICBMs and bombers - the Golf SSB's were untouchable (!?).

https://youtu.be/7WZedxjRWrk


Unfortunately due to the size of the US Counter Force strike the collateral damage caused enough civilian casualties, as well as taking out the Soviet command control systems, to cause the collapse of the Soviet Union. But the Soviet command's last command before destruction was to the SSBs off the coasts of the US each w/3 800kt IRBMs to launch on the primary US cities - and the US collapsed. At this point, the Europeans called an end to things before the 1000 US Bombers and > 100 Soviet IRBMs in theater destroyed Europe also...

https://youtu.be/FX3KSvaFd_w




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