| ID | 141129 |
| Title Proper | Remembering Soviet nuclear risks |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Maloney, Sean M |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In a 2005 interview, former Soviet Western Group of Forces commander Matvei Burlakov said that the peak of the Cold War came in the 1980s. In a crisis, he asserted, Soviet plans were to strike pre-emptively, when tensions first started to rise. All that remained was for the signal to be sent and the Western Group of Forces would be the first to act. Burlakov also insisted that the Soviet Union would have been the first to employ nuclear weapons in such a scenario: ‘[Soviet foreign minister Andrei] Gromyko may have said one thing, but the military had other ideas. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 57, No.4; Aug/Sep 2015: p.77-104 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 57 No 4 |
| Key Words | NATO ; Nuclear ; Deterrence ; Missiles ; United States ; Russia |