About Thermonuclear Rikki Tikki Tavi: The Parallax War By Thomas J Yeggy:
This book is predicated upon an alternate history which asks the question should the US have taken out Russia in 1961 when they had a 17-1 advantage in deliverable nuclear warheads.Karl Kaysen and Henry Rowen had worked up a plan that was feasible for 55 B-52s flying below the Soviets low altitude P-15 radar to take out the Soviets offensive nuclear weapons.
Politics aside (and Kennedy is my #1)- Go back 65 years to 1962 and put Trump in the Oval office instead of Kennedy and see if the decision Kennedy made in 1961 would have been the same as Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran. Kennedy even asked Russia to join the US in a surprise attack on China to stop their nuclear program.He was all for nuclear non-proliferation.The historical facts are largely accurate and deal withe the development of the RAND Corporation.
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Author Bio:
University of iowa Law Graduate with undergraduate degrees in English and Psychology