We all know 1980 was a tense time in the cold war, blah blah blah... and sometimes lesser known fact, the NATO Dual-Track decision in 1979 meant a lot of nukes everywhere... like 500+ nukes they wanted ready to start deploying by 1983. We know they want nuclear, but WHY??? Here's a serious theory: Nuclear weapons are categorically different from say, conventional bombs, like good ol' dynamite. They don't just rearrange chemical bonds to create reactions, they split the nucleus of atoms, relea...