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Originally Posted by Silent Hunter UK
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Talk about "Company Punishment!" This is why the US resolved to use Tactical Nuclear Weapons on Soviet soil in order to "disrupt" any military activity. The Germans and British always argued for a "demonstration strike" on an "unessential target" and the US disagreed. It's a good thing the US chose the "use on Soviet military capability" in the 1986 Geopolitical Guidelines. Practicing a strike on a section of Germany (for area denial) would have played right into the Russian's hands. Luckily, the Soviets came to the conclusion that even the use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons would escalate to a general exchange and signed the INF treaty eliminating almost all Theater Tactical Nuclear Capability by the 28th of May 1991. I believe that this was just a "magic trick." Those weapons were remanufactured and put on aircraft and Naval assets that were much harder to track and kill than the ground based missile carriers were. Just like the removal of almost all of the short range Tactical Weapons which occurred immediately after the INF treaty met compliance. Most of our artillery rounds and bombs were 30+ years old and were at the end of their service life and a new weapon allowed the practices of "Thermal Saturation" or "Scorched Earth" without the radiation. This is why Thermobaric Weapons replaced short ranged nukes in both the US and Soviet armies from the late 80's on.