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> They never planned to cause Armageddon, only have the capability to respond to the other guy causing it in such a way that they'd never want to cause it.

This was one school of thought within the command and control structure, but was, from my understanding both a minority opinion and one held more by political oversight members than by the actual generals holding the keys.

Leslie Groves specifically felt that a nuclear exchange was inevitable, and that the US was in a position to win.



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