Limited Nuclear War
America’s nuclear monopoly ended with the arrival of the Soviet bomb in 1949, but the United States continued to enjoy nuclear primacy for another decade. During the fifties, the Soviet Union’s capacity to retaliate was sharply limited because it lacked aerial-refueling capability that would enable its bombers to reach the US homeland from Soviet territ…
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