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Subject: What year did USSR achieve a credible nuclear deterrence?
swami    11/7/2004 3:38:30 PM
Question: What year did the USSR achieve a credible enough nuclear deterrence that the USA could not even consider going to war for fear of a nuclear destruction? Why do you pick that year?
 
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dudley    RE:What year did USSR achieve a credible nuclear deterrence?   11/10/2004 9:11:41 AM
From what ive read the missle gap of the early 60s was a falsehood and until the early 70s the USSR didnt achieve parity in ICBMs.
 
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Yimmy    RE:What year did USSR achieve a credible nuclear deterrence?   11/10/2004 11:33:59 AM
Russia had ICBM technology before America..
 
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swami    RE:What year did USSR achieve a credible nuclear deterrence?   11/20/2004 1:25:06 AM
Neither one of you guys are even remotely close to answering the question!
 
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F22    RE:What year did USSR achieve a credible nuclear deterrence?   1/15/2005 2:06:40 AM
1949---the year the USSR exploded its first atomic bomb. I believe that, in the minds of US policy makers at the time, the USSR's potential to detonate just one atomic bomb over an American city was enough of a deterrent.
 
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Nikolay    RE:What year did USSR achieve a credible nuclear deterrence?   8/28/2005 3:45:19 AM
F22 Is right 1949 is when it was acheved but even if the numbers were not always equal in the 50-60s USSR did have a slight size advantage :) Besides USSR was always searching for alternative methods of delivery such as SLBMs. Wich IMO are far more important then bombers in a nuclear war.
 
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jastayme3    RE:What year did USSR achieve a credible nuclear deterrence?   11/23/2005 11:09:25 PM
Remember it was bluff for many years-the US thought they had more than the Russians had(because Russians are very good at cloak and dagger and Americans are not). But as the Americans believed the Russians had such that was all that was needed. And anywhere else the conventional detterant was enough. No one wanted to start up "the steamrollar" again.
 
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