Hacker News new | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit login The Okinawa missiles of October 1962 ( thebulletin.org ) 222 points by sehugg 8 hours ago | 58 comments arethuza 7 hours ago "Why target non-belligerent countries?" Worth noting that until not long before the Cuban missile crisis there was only one single unconditional plan for the US fighting a nuclear war: the first version of SIOP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Integrated_Operational_... This targeted the Soviets, China, Warsaw Pact countries and even the likes of Yugoslavia and Albania. There was an exchange between General Power and David Shoup, Commandant of the Marine Corps, that went as follows: "What would happen if Beijing was not fighting; was there an option to leave Chinese targets out of the attack plan?" Power was reported to have said that he hoped no one would think of that "...