[moonshot925]

We weren’t just fighting the North Vietnamese but the Soviet Union and Red China. Any use of nukes on our part would have prompted a similar response from North Vietnam’s two major patrons.

In 1965 we had 9,345 strategic warheads while the Soviets only had 929.

We had a 10 to 1 advantage.

It would be foolish for the Soviets to respond because we were the ones who had nuclear superiority.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

929 warheads is still a lot of warheads. How many do you need to wipe out civilisation?

[Malone LaVeigh]

It would be foolish for the Soviets to respond because we were the ones who had nuclear superiority.

So we pop off a nuke in NVN and suddenly one goes off in Taiwan. Now what? Even with a 10-1 nuclear superiority, do you really want to get into a game of global tit-for-tat?