Bunk. The Soviets wouldn’t have launched a nuke attack over us doing 3rd gen weapons. Why? Pretty simple really – there wasn’t a threat.

The US never had imperialist intentions for the Soviet Union. Frankly, we could’ve cared less by Reagan’s era. What did we need another rust belt for? Ugh!

We weren’t after the Soviets and their leadership knew it. By Reagan’s presidency, the old hard-line “we must wipe capitalism from the earth” communists were only found in the rice paddies of Asia. The Kremlin didn’t worry about the US invading, they worried about the the entire world rushing past them economically – and they couldn’t solve that with nukes and tanks.