U.S. Nuclear targets list made public

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Disturbing:

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/declassified-documents-reveal-disturbing-scope-of-u-s-nuclear-target-list-in-the-1950s

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

It's certainly chilling, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Soviets had a similar doctrine. That said, the USSR had fewer weapons for most of the Cold War and would have had to make a higher priority for strategic targets.

[Heretek]

Chilling how its mostly population centers and not necessarily military targets. Some rather obvious military locations, like in Crimea, are completely passed over. Berlin, Warsaw(?), Kiev, Moscow, Petersburg, Vladivostok, Beijing, Pyongyang.

[Invader Zim]

It's certainly chilling, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Soviets had a similar doctrine. That said, the USSR had fewer weapons for most of the Cold War and would have had to make a higher priority for strategic targets.

Far fewer to be sure, but at over 1,000 still more than enough to make the world uninhabitable and to wipe out every major town and city in north America and western Europe.

[Synergy]

I wonder what the current one looks like.

[Aslan]

In the event of WWIII right after the fall of Berlin. Prime Minister Churchill planned to do ''Operation Unthinkable'', where British, American, and French armies would launch a surprise attack on Soviet troops and march to Moscow. Churchill planned to overthrow the Red army by re-arming Nazi German troops in order to defeat the Soviet Union.

This plan would certainly cause WWIII, and thankfully Roosevelt had some sense in not doing this. Leaving the bastard Churchill fuming alone.

[Comrade Jacob]

All populous areas. And they hate on the DPRK for threatening hitting military targets.

[Rudolf]

It makes sense the targets were population centres though, doesn't it? The only point in dropping a nuke is genocide, nothing else.

[Alet]

So, they actually decided to drop a nuclear bomb right next to West Berlin? I'm not sure whether I'm surprised.

[Armchair Partisan]

So, they actually decided to drop a nuclear bomb right next to West Berlin? I'm not sure whether I'm surprised.

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Though NATO did not really have a lot of love for Germany, whether West or East, so it does not surprise me they did not care enough - I'm not sure how long their mentality about Germany was "keep it down at all costs" rather than "we could use them, I guess", but I'm pretty sure that doctrine lasted until somewhere in the '50s.