Wired has another interesting article this month. The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam. "October 1969, however, was different. This was the only moment we know of when a president decided that it made strategic sense to pretend to launch World War III."
"Codenamed Giant Lance, Nixon's plan was the culmination of a strategy of premeditated madness he had developed with national security adviser Henry Kissinger. The details of this episode remained secret for 35 years and have never been fully told. Now, thanks to documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, it's clear that Giant Lance was the leading example of what historians came to call the 'madman theory': Nixon's notion that faked, finger-on-the-button rage could bring the Soviets to heel."
I think by playing crazy he's proved he really was crazy.
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