In 1961 President John F. Kennedy sat in the Cabinet Room with his top national-security aides and discussed the idea of launching a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. This was no theoretical chat... 4 atbildes
juriskazha (2022-06-22 19:50:28) |
In 1961 President John F. Kennedy sat in the Cabinet Room with his top national-security aides and discussed the idea of launching a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. This was no theoretical chat... | ||
juriskazha (2022-06-22 19:51:34) |
During the summer of 1961 a small group of officials in the Pentagon and the White House had worked out a plan for a first strike that would virtually wipe out the Soviets' nuclear arsenal, minimizing the chance of retaliation. | ||
juriskazha (2022-06-22 19:52:42) |
The plan...spelled out what flight paths the U.S. bombers should take, at what altitudes they should fly, and which targets they should hit with how many of what kinds of nuclear bombs. And it concluded that the mission was feasible—that there was a "fair probability" of success. | ||
juriskazha (2022-06-22 19:59:32) |
SIOP-62,called for sending in the full arsenal of —2,258 missiles and bombers carrying a total of 3,423 nuclear weapons—against 1,077 "military and urban-industrial targets" throughout the "Sino-Soviet Bloc." The attack would kill 54 percent of the USSR's population... | ||
juriskazha (2022-06-22 20:02:02) |
Assuming no apocalyptic nuclear winter and "ethnic targeting" to spare non-Russians like the Baltics, would we have a different world had this plan been executed and the Russians decimated? |