Thread Drift: The thought occurs to me to wonder why we didn't 'take out' the USSR when we could have. Surely the official thinking was that a number of US cities could be wiped out by judiciously placed nuclear blasts. And certainly relations between the countries were harsh and mistrustful. 'Pre-emptive strikes' evidently are a new thought for the US. Wonder how it is that they became a moral right.

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