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Originally Posted by Skybird
The Russians would have started any WWIII in Europe with nuclear attacks on day one, hour one, against NATO critical targets like airbases and CCCI, maybe even armour concentrations - but especially airfields.
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Unlikely and unnecessary.
Unlikely as it's not a good idea to nuke areas that you will soon be capturing and occupyingand unnecessary because the Russians had plenty of conventional assets to do the job and do it better. After all between them and the Warsaw Pact they had something like 9 Airborne divisions. They would do a much better job of denying nato the use of their airbases while still leaving them usable once the front line passes them.
If anyone would use nukes on the first day or two I'd think it would be NATO. The time to use them would be when those Soviet tank and motorized divisions are bottled up in choke points like Fulda. By day 3 or 4 their effectiveness would be greatly reduced.