February 4, 1980 P. 25

February 4, 1980 P. 25

The New Yorker, February 4, 1980 P. 25

Comment on having heard 5 political commentators say on television that under certain circumstances the U.S. might open nuclear hostilities with the Soviet Union. They were persuaded that if the Soviet Union should proceed from its invasion of Afghanistan to intervention in Iran, the U.S., faced with a takeover of its oil supply in She Middle East, might resort to the threat or actual use of nuclear arms.

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