U.S. Nuclear War Plan Option Sought Destruction of China and Soviet Union as “Viable” Societies | National Security Archive

U.S. Nuclear War Plan Option Sought Destruction of China and Soviet Union as “Viable” Societies | National Security Archive: U.S. nuclear war plans during the Johnson administration included the option of a retaliatory strike against nuclear, conventional military, and urban-industrial targets with the purpose of removing the Soviet Union “from the category of a major industrial power” and destroying it as a “viable” society.  This is one disclosure from a Joint Staff review of the Single Integrated