 With this information, the Soviet Union with its conventional method of war was being threatened.The chief of the Soviet General Staff, Nikolai V. Ogarkov, argued that the Soviets could win the war if they were the ones who struck with tactical nuclear weapons first.To counter this view, the Defense Minister, Dmitrii Ustinov disapproved of those who believed in winning a nuclear war and Brezhnev also believed that winning a war would be impossible.