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Afactor conspicuous by its absence in public discussions of the strategic balance is the highly developed Soviet civil defense plan for urban evacuation and expedient shelter construction. This plan would, if implemented during an international crisis preceding a full nuclear exchange, reduce the vulnerability of the Soviet population to about one-tenth of that of the U.S. population under present circumstances. 1 In this event Soviet losses would be less than were suffered in World War II.
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Chester, C.V., Wigner, E.P. (1998). Population Vulnerability: The Neglected Issue in Arms Limitation and the Strategic Balance. In: Mehra, J. (eds) Socio-Political Reflections and Civil Defense. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, vol B / 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58862-4_27
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