My wife linked this to me today and I found it interesting. Presumably this means they weren't just planning on nuking the hell out of the region.
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/1586036/how-russian-army-drew-up-plans-for-aberdeen-invasion-in-1980s/ (http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/1586036/how-russian-army-drew-up-plans-for-aberdeen-invasion-in-1980s/)
I know when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened, it was revealed that the Soviets had my hometown in the crosshairs along with larger places, which is disconcerting to think about.
My dad told me something spooky years ago, that the Soviets were stumped to find out how well the US guarded its missile sites, which to them indicated the US did not plan to launch them immediately in the event of war, we hoped to defend them against enemy ground and air attacks, which seemed odd to the Soviets since, my father claimed, the Soviet plan, at least under Brezhnev, was to hit strategic locations with limited nukes almost off the bat, not only to weaken the west but to demoralize it into not continuing a conflict.
Did you ever hear about the tiny Canadian village the Soviets decided must be a nuclear silo location because of its small population and targetted for total destruction in the event of a nuclear war?
I also heard part of the Soviet plan was to march Warsaw Pact troops through heavily irradiated places and simply have them fight until they dropped dead from radiation poisoning.
i live in wichita, the aircraft capital, so i just don't think about it anymore. i know we used to be in the top 10 on the nuke list, but that's comforting, in an odd way.
I think we were nuke points. Lawton, OK near Ft. Sill, home of the artillery and specifically Pershing Missles. And now in OKC metro, Tinker home to the Awacs. But been a bit since I seen any.
The Soviets believed in "the ax theory" as opposed to the west's "escalation" theory. The Soviets would haves upon determing a war was necessary, launch a nuclear first strike then following up with conventional assault.
There is a book called "inside the soviet army" that gives a lot of rich details about the Russian military and it's inner workings plus the logical rationale behind it. I recommend it to history buffs and anyone interested in some very surprising revelations about how he Russian army was actually very logically designed. Cold blooded, brutal and inhumane but logical.
No, but it was believed that they had plans to drop a nuclear bomb near where I lived, which would have been on a major U.S. Air Force base and home of several Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses , thus making it a prime target. Not only did they think a bomb would be dropped on the base, but they thought they knew when it'd be dropped. If such was correct, I'd probably would have escaped the initial blast, not only because of the distance from where the bomb would be dropped, but, because at that time of day, I was working in the basement of the building, where I worked.
The Soviets tried to invade my birth country of (as it was then) Rhodesia.
Quote from: Couchtr26 on October 17, 2018, 06:45:32 PM
I think we were nuke points. Lawton, OK near Ft. Sill, home of the artillery and specifically Pershing Missles. And now in OKC metro, Tinker home to the Awacs. But been a bit since I seen any.
Meanwhile in Lawton MI,....
No. We got nothing. Unless it was part of they're plan to nuke back wood drunks.
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 19, 2018, 09:32:03 AM
Quote from: Couchtr26 on October 17, 2018, 06:45:32 PM
I think we were nuke points. Lawton, OK near Ft. Sill, home of the artillery and specifically Pershing Missles. And now in OKC metro, Tinker home to the Awacs. But been a bit since I seen any.
Meanwhile in Lawton MI,....
No. We got nothing. Unless it was part of they're plan to nuke back wood drunks.
The biggest actual thing that came from it was Russians watching us dismantle the Pershings. I remember seeing cars with the flags as they drove past. Wonder if they caught a sight of Loopy Larry or Laughy Larry (can't remember what they called him for sure but paint sniffer walked around in an old business suit I have no idea what the original color was definitely not the multihued it was when I saw him.)?