"One important reason for wishing Britain to become neutral is that, as a neutral, Britain could be more useful than at present in suggesting compromises that might be acceptable to both parties. Another reason is that, while we remain in NATO, it is possible for the Russians to obliterate us without causing a general war." BR suggests Herman Kahn's On Thermonuclear War and his article in Survival, Vol. II, No. 2, as well as the remarks made by Khrushchev and Malinowsky at the time of the U-2 crisis.