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From: rigney@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Who's deterring whom? - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 24-Nov-83 22:49:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 24 22:49:03 1983
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uokvax!rigney    Nov 23 03:30:00 1983

/***** uokvax:net.politics / andree /  8:50 pm  Nov 22, 1983 */
As to the US thinking about using nukes, and being deterred by the
soviet arsenal, please let us know when, and give references.
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I don't know of any case  where  Soviet  missiles  deterred  U.S.
nuclear  policy,  but  there  are  over a hundred instances where
either the U.S. or U.S.S.R. has rattled the nuclear  sabre.   The
Cuban  missile crisis is the best known, another is the '73 Arab-
Israeli War - the Soviets threatened to land paratroops in  Cairo
to  defend it if the Israelis continued their advance into Egypt,
and the U.S. threatened to launch if it happened.  The  U.S.  put
*heavy*  pressure  on  Israel  to  back off and not humiliate the
Egyptians, saying  they  would  stop  supplies  otherwise.   Such
incidents  are  more  common  than  most people think, but rarely
recieve much publicity.

	Carl
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