The 1969 Soviet plan to launch a pre-emptive fucking nuclear strike on China averted only by HENRY FUCKING KISSINGER?!!!! stating at the last minute that if the USSR went through with it the US would launch a retaliatory 130 ICBM nuclear strike against the USSR!!!!
The 1969 Soviet plan to launch a pre-emptive fucking nuclear strike on China averted only by HENRY FUCKING KISSINGER?!!!! stating at the last minute that if the USSR went through with it the US would launch a retaliatory 130 ICBM nuclear strike against the USSR!!!!
A plan that wasn't carried out? We can't know the chances of it having been, and this was the 1960s, everyone had tons of nuclear contingencies.
Mao, at least, thought they were credible threats. The Sino-Soviet split got really fucking heated around 1969
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