Also the time frame is post cold war since the closed minuteman missile sites at. So with a bit more digging it seems this map originated at a survivalist web site and represents somebody s guesswork and probably not an actual military assessment. Potential targets of ussr nuclear missiles aimed at usa during the cold war.
Since the cold war the us and russia have drawn up plans on how to best wage nuclear. Russian state media says putin s hypersonic missiles would instantly vaporize these 5 us targets. 1 when your electronics stop working most of them cars phones the grid.
When to evacuate the nuclear target areas. The least you can do is to know the 4 signs of evacuation. If you live in or near a nuclear target you don t have too many options.
The next world war will be as inevitable as the other two. Paralyze the enemy s communication and military then strike with one massive blow using thousands of nuclear weapons bye bye. Nuclear strategy during the cold war was for the soviets to detonate a 20 megaton thermo nuclear weapon 250 miles above the center of the united states to disable all electronics and computers.
According to kiselyov s map as reported on by reuters moscow s nuclear targets would be military centers including the pentagon camp david and naval communications base. This unstable situation is extremely risky and has repeatedly come. The united states still has about 1 900 nuclear warheads deployed on missiles and bombers with thousands more on reserve ready to be launched at a moment s notice and able to hit their targets within 30 minutes.
Even though today s nuclear targets list is classified it probably doesn t look dramatically different. It named 38 cities but left off places. During the height of the cold war in the 1970s the uk drew up a list of the places which would probably be targeted during an atomic battle with russia.
Newly declassified target list shows how us planned to target capitals purely to kill their populations by.
Cold war nuclear target map. From the guardian 05 june 2014 the uk government drew up a top secret list of 106 cities towns and military bases across the country as probable nuclear targets in the early 1970s according to documents released by the national archives. During the cold war a list of the places thought likely to come under nuclear attack by the soviet union was agreed by military commanders the. The soviet cities that america would have wiped off the map in a nuclear war. Newly declassified target list shows how us planned to target capitals purely to kill their populations.
How the pentagon planned to nuke the soviet union and china during the cold war by thomas gibbons neff washington post 28 december 2015 the soviet cities that america would have wiped off the map in a nuclear war.
How the pentagon planned to nuke the soviet union and china during the cold war by thomas gibbons neff washington post 28 december 2015 the soviet cities that america would have wiped off the map in a nuclear war. Newly declassified target list shows how us planned to target capitals purely to kill their populations. The soviet cities that america would have wiped off the map in a nuclear war.
During the cold war a list of the places thought likely to come under nuclear attack by the soviet union was agreed by military commanders the. From the guardian 05 june 2014 the uk government drew up a top secret list of 106 cities towns and military bases across the country as probable nuclear targets in the early 1970s according to documents released by the national archives.
