re: #244 No Malarkey!
It would, of course, have been unimaginably devastating and horrible, but it’s still interesting to speculate how NATO forces would’ve match up with the Warsaw Pact if a general war had broken out in Europe during the Cold War. If the performance of the Russian army in Ukraine is any indication, I don’t think it would’ve gone well for the Warsaw Pact.
But it would have left large parts of Germany a charred pile of rubble and if they went with tactical nukes, large parts of it would still be uninhabitable.