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They were developed in response to the United States' policy of UsefulNotes/PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower. The Soviets' (well, to be honest, mutual) institutional paranoia and fear that they were going to get sneak attacked[[note]]Especially in the early 1980s with Pershing II and GLCM missiles in Western Europe. As Russians will point out to you, their experience of being sneak-attacked from the West in 1941 was ''extremely'' traumatic and their foreign policy since has concerned preventing this from happening again. They will also point out that the Soviet Union had a "no first use" policy for nuclear weapons, but the United States ''did not and still doesn't''. (Post-Soviet Russia abandoned this policy in 1993, and reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to invasion.)[[/note]], Khruschev's love for stuff high-tech and a view that having the things in service supplanted other considerations, meaning that platforms arrived before they were fully military effective (early Soviet missile subs had short-range missiles and were sitting ducks for Western subs), or ''safe''.
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They were developed in response to the United States' policy of UsefulNotes/PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower. The Soviets' (well, to be honest, mutual) institutional paranoia and fear that they were going to get sneak attacked[[note]]Especially in the early 1980s with Pershing II and GLCM missiles in Western Europe. As Russians will point out to you, their experience of being sneak-attacked from the West in 1941 was ''extremely'' traumatic and their foreign policy since has concerned preventing this from happening again. They will also point out that the Soviet Union had a "no first use" policy for nuclear weapons, but the United States ''did not and still doesn't''.doesn't''—Eisenhower unofficially had one, and successive presidents have maintained it, but it was never signed into law and is subject to presidential whim. (Post-Soviet Russia abandoned this policy in 1993, and reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to invasion.)[[/note]], Khruschev's love for stuff high-tech and a view that having the things in service supplanted other considerations, meaning that platforms arrived before they were fully military effective (early Soviet missile subs had short-range missiles and were sitting ducks for Western subs), or ''safe''.
