How the US Invented Dirty Bombs to Stop the Soviet Advance in Europe
The mentation of mutually assured demolition in the form of planetary nuclear annihilation made loss leader on both sides of the Iron Curtain squeamish . But , circumscribed nuclear state of war , now there was a programme ! Irradiating the soviet just a little number , you know , as a baulk , was seen as the clearly superior option to straight-out ICBM fusillade . To that end , the US armed services began sharply explore the exercise of very small , “ tactical ” warheads in the late 1960 ’s ....