krem wrote:МОжет и бред, но история показывает, что были такие мыслы раньше, почему же их не может быть сейчас.
As early as 1948, during the Berlin crisis, President Truman authorized Operation Broiler, which included plans to drop 34 atomic bombs on 24 cities in the Soviet Union in a first strike by B-29 bombers.
Неправда.
Thus, although President Harry Truman refused to use military force to open the surface routes, he resisted Soviet pressure to withdraw Americans from the city and sent 90 B-29 bombers to England. Meanwhile, the Air Force began airlifting food to the western sectors of Berlin. To the surprise of Soviets and Americans alike, Operation Vittles was soon supplying all the necessities for West Berlin. After nearly a year, the Soviets lifted their blockade, leaving the Western position intact. The U.S. response seemed firm, bold, imaginative, correct, and obviously successful
The Joint War Plans Committee recognized that "the only weapon which the United States can employ to obtain decisive effects in the heart of the USSR is the atomic bomb delivered by long-range aircraft." The committee estimated that 196 atomic bombs would cause "…such destruction upon the industrial sources of military power in the USSR that a decision could eventually be obtained."10
The JCS, however, had no detailed plan for executing an atomic attack.http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1981/jul-aug/borowski.htm