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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
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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I recall there was an uproar in Poland some time ago , when the military contingency plans for repelling a Nato attack on the USSSR were made public. In the event of a situation where the Soviets were forced to retreat and the borders of the USSSR themselves were threatened, a Nato ground assault through Poland would be stopped by the liberal use of Soviet nuclear weapons on key Polish communications and population centers as well as on field formations of NATO tropps in Poland. These plans of course -were without the Poles knowledge. This way the USSSr hoped to crush the military advance using nukes but at he same time leaving the ball in NATOs court regarding the possible full scale retaliation with nukes targeted at Russian / US / Western European territory. Technically the USSR had not attacked NATO soil with nuclear weapons in this scenario.
A dangerous - and cynical gambit - worthy of evil masterminds hiding in deep cold war bunkers imo.