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1. It wasn't a threat, it was an until recently classified standing order that the USSR and China would not even have known about.

2. And what were US nukes in Turkey? (You know, the ones the US removed because the Soviets put nukes in Cuba.)

3. Answered below.

4. The numbers you've carefully "worked through" there are simply an absurd exaggeration of a long discredited myth.