When you look over the various sources for the time, Soviet doctrine planned for the usage of chemical and nuclear weapons from the very outset, to be true, this is if the Soviets launched an attack into NATO, but I feel that they would have used these weapons against the German/UK/USA attack formations as well as the air and log bases in the FRG.
From a ready use of tactical nukes, the decision to go strategic would have happened in a very short time. Would it have been the limited strategic that GDW "cannoned"? IMO, this was a short-sighted approach, once the decision was made to nuke the US/UK....it would have an all or nothing attack.
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