December 23, 2015
By Scott Shane
Washington — Target category No. 275 from the nuclear target list for 1959 may be the most chilling. It is called simply “Population.
By Scott Shane
Washington — Target category No. 275 from the nuclear target list for 1959 may be the most chilling. It is called simply “Population.
For the first time, the National Archives and Records Administration has released a detailed list of the United States’ potential targets for atomic bombers in the event of war with the Soviet Union, showing the number and the variety of targets on its territory, as well as in Eastern Europe and China...
Excuse me. But. The bombs are suppose to fall on military instillations to remove any military advantage. It was never my understanding these death machines were suppose to fall on human populations.
Key Targets for SAC Forces (click here) (Interactive map, click on targets to see more information)
Key Targets for SAC Forces (click here) (Interactive map, click on targets to see more information)
Using data from the SAC study, this Google map shows the top 20 Soviet bloc airfields of more than 1100 that SAC listed as targets for its Air Power attack [See section 6 for complete list]. The map also shows the locations of five of the major Soviet bloc cities that SAC included in its list of over 1200 potential urban targets: East Berlin, Warsaw, Leningrad, Moscow, and Beijing [Peiping] and their suburbs. Linked to each city is a spread sheet that lists the various installations SAC targeted for destruction and total numbers of installations targeted for the five urban areas. Compiling these spread sheets required the laborious matching of the information in the Category Code List (section 3) with the data in the city lists in the “Systematic Destruction” sections of the SAC report [see sections 5 and 7 for excerpts]. After all the category code items for each city were counted, it could be determined how many and what type of military, industrial, transportation, power, and communications installations, among other target types, had been slated for destruction. The data on numbers of nuclear weapons assigned to destroy the various objectives has been excised, but there is probably no correlation between those numbers and the numbers of installations in each city....
