The why god is wonderful thread

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Why? Give the warheads to the intelligence specialists and let them deploy them personally. 2 birds, 1 stone.

In both cases, US and USSR, the real issue was politics. Congress got the willy-waws thinking about generals with their fingers on the button. For the Sovs it was a matter of KGB not wanting to give up their monopoly, and GRU wanting to keep KGB out of the decision-making process on the battlefield. Throw in some fence-sitting factions, all with different agendas, and you have the first real success of either political system, that being that they stopped thinking about "battlefield nukes" like they were "just another weapon" and put them back in the M.A.D. box.

[Don't Panic]

Why? Give the warheads to the intelligence specialists and let them deploy them personally. 2 birds, 1 stone.

In both cases, US and USSR, the real issue was politics. Congress got the willy-waws thinking about generals with their fingers on the button. For the Sovs it was a matter of KGB not wanting to give up their monopoly, and GRU wanting to keep KGB out of the decision-making process on the battlefield. Throw in some fence-sitting factions, all with different agendas, and you have the first real success of either political system, that being that they stopped thinking about "battlefield nukes" like they were "just another weapon" and put them back in the M.A.D. box.

Yeah, one of the very few intelligent decisions made during the cold war.