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So true! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb

'The concept was originally developed by the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was seen as a "cleaner" bomb for use against massed Soviet armored divisions.'

It seems you have no understanding at all of the goals of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

It's worth reading up on.

Democracy in the US isn't mutually exclusive with any of those?

I don't think anyone is claiming that nationalism, fear, and high-technology were a problem unique to the Soviet Union.