Complete waste of money and time. The reverse of those books where NATO always gets the upper hand in its actions, here Soviets are always lucky and/or competent and NATO countries a bunch of idiots. Offers an absurd defense strategy only supported on nuclear weapons.
Scary and quite a terribly ruthless fictional Plotline.
Who's to say that this couldn't take place even today after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the lessening of the Iron Curtain? And NATO didn't have a chance thanks to their continuing laxness of not taking the Russians serious enough.