The Russia-U.S. Conventional Military Balance

This column was written for the Unz Review: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/the-russia-u-s-conventional-balance/ In a recent column for the Unz Review I wrote that “under any conceivable scenario Russia does have the means to basically completely destroy the USA as a country in about 30min (the USA, of course, can do the same to Russia). Any US war planner would have to consider the escalatory potential of any military action against Russia.” This still