Quote:Hell yeah! I would get to be liberated instead of bombed. ^_^
Problem is fallout my good man. It would be interesting to see War Plans from the 70s and 80s to see if the use of nuclear weapons became much more limited as both sides became more aware of the after effects of the weapons.
I read through a NATO War Plan Scenario once from the early 80s. Basically the scenario entailed a deterioration in relations between East and West with the Soviets threatening to blockade West Berlin. To show force, the US and Britain and France would increase the Berlin Brigade forces in West Berlin by 10,000. As a result the Soviet Forces would blockade the city to prevent further NATO deployments. Eventually negotiations would become dead locked and the NATO forces would attempt to breach the Inner German Border with conventional forces. It was estimated that NATO forces could reach West Belin within a week's time do to the fact that Soviet Forces would have to cope with a large NATO force of several tens of thousands of troops in West Berlin and a massive NATO force breaching the Inner German Border. Upon reaching West Berlin the scenario actually stressed that NATO forces halt their advance inorder to not provoke the Soviets into using nuclear weapons.
From here the scenario split into two possibilites, the first being a NATO called ceasefire followed by a return to negotiations, that was the best case scenario. The worst case scenario envisioned by NATO planners was a surgical strike by Warsaw Pact Nuclear Forces on NATO command and control centers in Western Europe, such as NATO HQ in Brussels. At this point the NATO War Plan called for a retalitory strike against Warsaw Pact Command and Control Centers. Finally, the plan stated that if such a scenario unfolded it was more then likely that the Warsaw Pact would release its full nuclear arsenal and the NATO would release its full nuclear arsenal in a retaliatory strike.