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Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified For First Time (gwu.edu)
HughPickens.com writes: Scott Shane writes in the NY Times that 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. The Strategic Air Command study includes chilling details. According to its authors, their target priorities and nuclear bombing tactics would expose nearby civilians and "friendly forces and people" to high levels of deadly radioactive fallout. Moreover, the authors developed a plan for the "systematic destruction" of Soviet bloc urban-industrial targets that specifically and explicitly targeted "population" in all cities, including Beijing, Moscow, Leningrad, East Berlin, and Warsaw.
The target list was produced at a time before intercontinental or submarine-launched missiles, when piloted bombers were essentially the only means of delivering nuclear weapons. The United States then had a huge advantage over the Soviet Union, with a nuclear arsenal about 10 times as big. "We've known the general contours of nuclear war planning for a few decades," says Stephen I. Schwartz. "But it's great that the details are coming out. These are extraordinary weapons, capable of incredible destruction. And this document may be history, but unfortunately the weapons are not yet history."
The target list was produced at a time before intercontinental or submarine-launched missiles, when piloted bombers were essentially the only means of delivering nuclear weapons. The United States then had a huge advantage over the Soviet Union, with a nuclear arsenal about 10 times as big. "We've known the general contours of nuclear war planning for a few decades," says Stephen I. Schwartz. "But it's great that the details are coming out. These are extraordinary weapons, capable of incredible destruction. And this document may be history, but unfortunately the weapons are not yet history."
"Israel from its constant aggression"
what world do you live in? you're an idiot.
Israel is constantly under attack from practically everyone in the region. The very ones you wish to give nukes to, wants to kill all the Jews and remove Israel from the map.
Giving nukes to a religious group of people who want the end of the world, and doesn't care about M.A.D. is a double plus ungood bad thing.
it's people like you that enable people like that to continue doing the things they do.
"How many nuclear bombs have the Israelis dropped?"
More importantly, how many nuclear bombs does Israel have? And why do they continually refuse to declare their nuclear arsenault or sign the NPF?
Israel has created what it calls "the Samson option" - which is the largest military threat to humanity that the world has even known.
Essentially, Israel has placed nuclear weapons in - or pointed them at - major cities in North America, Europe and elsewhere in the world. The purpose is to be able to destroy the entire planet should Israel's existence be seriously threatened. The Zionist agenda is to not just take over Palestine, but ultimately, the entire world. They are basically saying that "if we cannot rule the world then nobody can."
And for Israel to demand that Iran stop developing nuclear energy whilst hoarding it's own, undeclared stockpile is complete hypocrisy.
I would be very interested in seeing Israel's nuclear target list...
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.