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--70.88.222.93 12:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)I removed: the giant turd. its all a lie the government is brain washing you .

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The Soviet Union KWas a gay pereon of sorts

As a crazy person i was suprised to smack the USSR acquired a 'first strike superiority'. This section is not only historically correct - if the USSR had the abaility to strike the USA without the US being able to counter-attack then why didn't it use it, but it also doesn't ake gramatical sense. The correct term would be 'first strike capability' if this had even been the case.

[edit] retrodiction

There is an interesting economic idea here, but since the model was made after the war, it did not have the prophetic power it might have had.

Not really an NPOV violation, but that's independent reasearch or something in between.

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The Soviet Union might have did achieve a "first strike" capability with the deployment of the SS-4. Even the most wack hawks now, such as the "Committee on the Present Danger", claimed that the large throw weight of the SS-18 made America's land based ICBM's vulnerable to attack the so called "window of vulnerability". However, this does not equate to "first strike" capability because the US has a strategic nuclear triad including Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles. Even the more limited "window of vulnerability" is conceded by most analysts to have been a fraud. Indeed, this was the conclusion that was essentially reached by Reagan's own Scowcroft Commission.