air force. they came back with an answer very quickly, 325 million people in the ussr and china alone.hen i asked, "all right, how many altogether?" and a few days later, 100 million in east europe, the captive nations, another 100 million in west europe, our allies, from our own strikes, by fallout, depending on which way the wind blew. and however the wind blew, a third 100 million in adjoining countries, neutral countries, like austria and finland, or afghanistan then, japan, northern india and so forth -- a total of 600 million people. that was a time, by the way, when the population of the world was 3 billion. and that was an underestimate of their casualties, 100 holocausts. it was very clear that they hadn't included -- i hadn't asked, actually, what would russian retaliation be against us and against west europe. they were thought at that time, wrongly, to have hundreds of weapons against the u.s. but they did have hundreds of weapons against west europe, no question. west europe would go, under any circumstances. if we were defending west europe -- germany, for example -- we w