life-magazine-scrapbook: “ If a Soviet attack came in 1949, the West planned to hold at the Rhine and nuke the advancing armies as they assembled to cross the river. Source: LIFE Aug. 8, 1949 ”

life-magazine-scrapbook:

If a Soviet attack came in 1949, the West planned to hold at the Rhine and nuke the advancing armies as they assembled to cross the river.

Source: LIFE Aug. 8, 1949

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