What was Soviet doctrine as far as using nukes at sea?
It pretty well known now that they planned to start using nukes almost from the start of a war in Europe. Was the same true for their navy. I've always had the view that they would want to avoid crossing that threshold at sea. They would have lost those exchanges in effect, as their navy was tied pretty tightly to their bases and had little ability to "scatter" like the US had and US doctrine was to take out the bases with nukes if the Soviets started using their nukes against navy ships.
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