In 1945, The Pentagon Estimated That 204 Atomic Bombs Could Destroy The Soviet Union -- Business Insider
"My God, what have we done," Enola Gay copilot Robert Lewis reportedly said as the Superfortress was making its way back to base on August 6, 1945, after dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
World War II had ended with grisly evidence of what atomic warfare actually was. But just weeks after its end, the Pentagon was already hypothesizing about what an entire wave of nuclear attacks could achieve.
American defense planners came up with the following "estimated bomb requirements for the destruction of Russian strategic areas" in September of 1945:
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My Comment: What I find amazing about this report is that a few weeks after the end of the Second World War .... Pentagon planners were already planning war strategies against the Soviet Union.
2 comments:
Brodie calculated that 150. 20mt bombs were capable of MAD in the early 50's.
Adding in for 2nd response, pushed the number to 300.
By the early 60's, the US had over 1500 targeted on the city of Moscow alone.
Nuclear Winter studies in the 80's, showed that the after effects of as little as 100 20mt nuclear explosions, would kill all human life in the Northern Hemisphere.
Gynne Dyer's book War, has a couple of chapters of the insanity that was "our" nuclear posture. Turns out it is mostly a form of military welfare for the Corporations.
I don't know why we would plan war against the USSR.
Gorbychev or someone admitted that 300 to 500 American POWs liberated form German camps were kept by the USSR.
Estimates were as high as 25,000
Ditto the British.
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