he was wrong. they may have inflicted damage. but during that window of time we would have easily won the exchange. no civilization has ever had such unilateral power as the us in the early 60s. and we squandered it for the altrusim of a man. by the mid 60s the soviets caught up enough to make a nuclear exchange a losing scenario for everyone involved. we missed our window- and we let the most godlike control of the world ever imagined by man slip through or fingers.
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