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Still, Von Neumann was certainly not the only one advocating this, the most recent discovery is: Winston Churchill, 1947:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2826980/Winston-Chur...

"A previously unseen memorandum from the FBI’s archives revealed that Winston Churchill urged the US to conduct a preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union to win the Cold War"

"The memo is published for the first time in a book called When Lions Roar: The Churchills And The Kennedys, by award-winning investigative journalist Thomas Maier. It is due to be published in Britain next month."

That insanity obviously wasn't in only one person's mind.




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