Sorry Eggplant, but that is exactly the material I said “bunk” to. There are all sort of military planners and all sorts of plans. But they all have to have a sequence that creates the trigger. And the trigger scenario couldn’t/wouldn’t have happened. And no matter how nutty we may think the old commies were, they never had the justification – ever.

The cold war was real and potentially deadly. But like all wars it was winding down before Reagan took office. And during Reagan’s tenure, the US and the rest of the G7 ran past the Soviets economically. Unlike the 12th Imman Shiites in Iran, the Soviet leadership had no desire to destroy the world. They didn’t want to usher in stone knives and bearskins.

Sometime the problem with reading books, whether the “what if’s” you refered to or total fantasy movies like “Inconvenient Truth” is that they collide with common-sense.