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AshbyLaw t1_ivetlfx wrote

So the number of NATO bombs was growing exponentially, the USSR started to increase its number linearly and maybe this was a message like "we can do it too, so what now?"; NATO: "OK, understood", Russia: "nice, we will decrease too".

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bremidon t1_ivfaj6e wrote

Are you not used to reading charts?

By the time the Soviets started their linear increase, NATO was already decreasing its stockpiles.

Having lived through it, I can assure you that the message was not: "we can do it too," but "we will bury you."

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AshbyLaw t1_ivfh50b wrote

> Are you not used to reading charts? > > By the time the Soviets started their linear increase, NATO was already decreasing its stockpiles.

According to the chart USSR has a linear increase from the beginning while NATO decrease starts from 1967.

Maybe you considered the linear increase of USSR as starting from 1970 because after that the bars align to form a line?

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bremidon t1_ivfpjgn wrote

Well, I was being nice to you.

Because if we take the drop from NATO into account, it's no longer a straight line and is therefore an exponential curve.

It's hard to say what kind of increase there might be in the beginning...you would have to eyeball it on a graph form that is not really well designed for it.

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AshbyLaw t1_ivfy5iv wrote

> it's no longer a straight line and is therefore an exponential curve.

It doesn't matter for my point if USSR's increase was linear or exponential

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