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While V's terrorism was targeted specifically at corrupt officials, his strategic purpose was to incite the public into a general revolt, and he fully understood how the radicalization/reprisal escalation ladder would bring this about. HERMAN KAHN'S 1962 book Thinking about the Unthinkable, a mass-market reworking of his influential 1960 treatise On Thermonuclear War, introduced a generation of horrified Americans to the intricacies of modern nuclear strategy: counterforce and countervalue, the escalation ladder, the gruesome hypothetical scenario. |
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