[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?

[brivette]

good point..

[moonshot925]

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?

Then we would execute a preemptive first strike against the Soviet Union and China.

It is called "massive retaliation".