the pentagon under secretary robert mcnamara, all these doctrines of limited use, flexible use , herman kahn'salation ladder, it was all... logic, paradoxical logic, but the fact is that when vietnam began, then at the non-nuclear vietnamese test site, all these theories of controlled escalation all went to hell. 70 years ago, at the totsky test site in the orenburg region, in an atmosphere of the strictest secrecy , the only combined arms exercises in the history of the ussr were held with the use of nuclear weapons. the terrain of this area resembled western... europe, where they would probably have to fight. under the leadership of marshal zhukov, the rds-2 atomic bomb, with a yield of 40 kilotons, twice as powerful as the one dropped on nagasaki, was detonated 350 m from the ground. equipment, weapons and animals were positioned around the epicenter, and troops in protective suits waited in shelters. the nuclear flu rose to a height of 6 km. equipment that was located at... a distance from the epicenter was pressed into the ground and melted. the centuries-old forest at the epicenter disap

over 60 years, i will remind you of its essence: at the end of the fifties they had a professor, herman kahnup with the concept of the nuclear threshold. what does this mean? this is a period of time, hypothetical, that passes between the beginning of the war and the first use of nuclear weapons. kahn said that it can be of two types: either this threshold is low, the war begins immediately as a nuclear weapon. or he says the threshold is high: first we fight for a while with conventional weapons, then we send a signal with tactical nuclear weapons, if. first, as he says, we need to hit the ocean or the south pole to show the enemy: either peace or use nuclear weapons. if that doesn't work, then, he says, we use tactical nuclear weapons, and if it comes to strategic nuclear weapons, then kahn said: we will not hit cities, but destroy airfields and missile launchers of the enemy. us defense secretary robert said it differently then. mcnama. he said, don't hit the enemy in the face, it's better to smash his kuak, and then dictate his peace. first, we'll destroy his missiles before they launch,