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Old 01-05-2019, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker View Post
Which makes it an even more viable and attractive target for the Soviets.
I can just see the Soviet leadership now saying something like "lets leave one of the largest and most important pieces of transportation infrastructure in the world intact and in US hands..."
Yeah, doesn't sound very plausible does it?
But it is not a target that you can effectively destroy with one nuclear weapon, and if you use a nuclear weapon against it the fallout will spread across Central America and parts of South America. These are territories that the Soviet propaganda machine has told its allies that it wants to liberate from the American imperialists, and it is what all those Marxist guerrilla movements plus Cuba and Nicaragua have been fighting for. So a nuclear weapon against a target that it won't destroy will just radiate the whole area and alienate all the Soviet allies in Latin America. I think a demo job by a group of Spetsnaz would be a lot more effective in every way.
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