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One of the revelations of Doomsday Machine is an expose of the US's plan for nuclear war (SIOP), which from the mid fifites to 1962 was actively hidden from the president and the secretary of defense by the joint chiefs. It called for a first strike, full scale nuclear war that would target every city of at least 25,000 people in the USSR AND CHINA in the event of a "general war" with the Soviet Union (even in the case where China had nothing to do with the conflict). Elsewhere, the term "general war" was defined as "armed conflict with the Soviet Union". For real....any military engagement with a power capable of symmetrical response would go nuclear in days.