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Article: What ever happened to the Red Army? (Defense & Technology)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 31, 1995
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IN the good old days (or bad, depending on whether you were sitting in the Kremlin or the White House) there was a fearsome military machine known collectively as the Red Army. The Cold War was on and the existence of that fearsome machine appeared to threaten to turn it into a hot one, generally thought of as the ``nuclear holocaust.'' (Those were somewhat emotional days.)
One could never rule out the possibility that some maniac in the Kremlin might press the fatal button, but the possibility of a ``holocaust'' was probably remote. Until 1977 - 78, that is. In that period, the Soviet Union started deploying a sophisticated Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile ...