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Stealhead · 10-03-12, 01:31 AM

Well they would first do several EMP burst in order to wipe out as much electronics as possible keep you form staring your car at all then hit you with an air burst.

They would target our missile silos and major strategic targets first in order to wipe out as much counter attack as possible hopefully hitting enough of our secondary weapons (ones targeted at industry) from even launching or most of them anyway.

The Soviets started to feel as though the US was so ahead in warhead numbers that we actually where comfortable with a limited nuclear exchange so they started making missiles with a large MIRV capacity to try and make up for the gap which in turn made some in the US fear a gap.

Look up the MX program and the documentary called "First Strike" it is very interesting as the first acted section is real meaning real SAC and Navy people
the procedures shown are very accurate but what the experts talk about next is fairly interesting.

Next look up "Dead Hand" and also 1983 Able Archer.1983 was an extremely tense time period to say the least we came very very close mostly all tanks to paranoia in the KGB
or in its analyzation of gathered intel they misinterrupted our raising of military facility threat con increase due to the Marine Barracks bombing as a preparation for war and that is just a samll bit of it.

Then the Soviet early warning system which was a little wonky saw a sun glare and triggered a minuteman launch alert luckily the man in charge did not trust the system and personally felt that the US would send a massive strike not the handful that his system was warning him off his was right of course good thing he decided and did not send it up further until the last possible minute where it was clear something was amiss with the system where they did not have doubts as to the EW system and would have had minutes to decide launch or not.The guy got fired from his post even though he was right and later had two nervous break downs not overly surprising talk about making a very serious decision.Funny thing was it was not his normal shift he was standing in for someone who fell ill.

10-03-12, 01:31 AM	#21
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Well they would first do several EMP burst in order to wipe out as much electronics as possible keep you form staring your car at all then hit you with an air burst. They would target our missile silos and major strategic targets first in order to wipe out as much counter attack as possible hopefully hitting enough of our secondary weapons (ones targeted at industry) from even launching or most of them anyway. The Soviets started to feel as though the US was so ahead in warhead numbers that we actually where comfortable with a limited nuclear exchange so they started making missiles with a large MIRV capacity to try and make up for the gap which in turn made some in the US fear a gap. Look up the MX program and the documentary called "First Strike" it is very interesting as the first acted section is real meaning real SAC and Navy people the procedures shown are very accurate but what the experts talk about next is fairly interesting. Next look up "Dead Hand" and also 1983 Able Archer.1983 was an extremely tense time period to say the least we came very very close mostly all tanks to paranoia in the KGB or in its analyzation of gathered intel they misinterrupted our raising of military facility threat con increase due to the Marine Barracks bombing as a preparation for war and that is just a samll bit of it. Then the Soviet early warning system which was a little wonky saw a sun glare and triggered a minuteman launch alert luckily the man in charge did not trust the system and personally felt that the US would send a massive strike not the handful that his system was warning him off his was right of course good thing he decided and did not send it up further until the last possible minute where it was clear something was amiss with the system where they did not have doubts as to the EW system and would have had minutes to decide launch or not.The guy got fired from his post even though he was right and later had two nervous break downs not overly surprising talk about making a very serious decision.Funny thing was it was not his normal shift he was standing in for someone who fell ill. Last edited by Stealhead; 10-03-12 at 01:43 AM.