Is this true? Is it useful to say?
Another chart for my chart grimoire!
You'll love this one.
Herman Kahn, on whom Dr. Strangelove may have been based, wrote the book On Thermonuclear War.
In it, he produced a detailed 44-rung escalation ladder to describe how fucked we are in any given conflict. Nuclear war begins at rung 21.
>>1585010
It's weird how quickly these trends change- this is from 1960 and it feels like it's totally out of order.
>Nuclear ultimatums BEFORE conventional strategic counterforce attacks
> 20. Embargo / 21. """local nuclear war""""
>>1584694
seems to be a very elaborate way of saying 'hardening' of the enemy
>>1585143
>the movement from the vaguest descriptor of a society possible to an equally vague descriptor
huh!
>>1584694
doubletalk.fuckary