Comments on: Ever Wonder How They Would Have Done it? http://www.chaoticsynapticactivity.com/2007/09/21/ever-wonder-how-they-would-have-done-it/ It's not random, it's CHAOS! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:24:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Steeljaw Scribe http://www.chaoticsynapticactivity.com/2007/09/21/ever-wonder-how-they-would-have-done-it/#comment-10028 Steeljaw Scribe Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:13:02 +0000 http://www.chaoticsynapticactivity.com/2007/09/21/ever-wonder-how-they-would-have-done-it/#comment-10028 Not only did I wonder -- I wrote my thesis on it, focusing on the TNF side of operations and building a pretty elaborate first strike model in PeachCalc ("Between Scylla and Charybdis: U.S. and Soviet Theater Nuclear Forces and Strategy 1945-1985"). All UNCLAS/open source material too - raised a more than a few eyebrows around campus. Still have it on a bunch of WordStar floppies. My numbers were a little less as I used MIRV'd SS-20's (3 x 150kt warheads) for the brunt of my first strike. Of course, we were no less sanguine as far back as Operation CARTE BLANCHE in the late 50s that gamed out using tac nukes (a ton of 'em) to stop a Soviet offensive. When the results leaked to the local German presses, the anti-nuke faction formed ("Kampf dem Atomtod") and the rest, as they say, was history. - SJS Not only did I wonder — I wrote my thesis on it, focusing on the TNF side of operations and building a pretty elaborate first strike model in PeachCalc (”Between Scylla and Charybdis: U.S. and Soviet Theater Nuclear Forces and Strategy 1945-1985″). All UNCLAS/open source material too - raised a more than a few eyebrows around campus. Still have it on a bunch of WordStar floppies.

My numbers were a little less as I used MIRV’d SS-20’s (3 x 150kt warheads) for the brunt of my first strike. Of course, we were no less sanguine as far back as Operation CARTE BLANCHE in the late 50s that gamed out using tac nukes (a ton of ‘em) to stop a Soviet offensive. When the results leaked to the local German presses, the anti-nuke faction formed (”Kampf dem Atomtod”) and the rest, as they say, was history.

- SJS

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