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Key Targets for SAC Forces (Interactive map, click on targets to see more information)

Urban-Industrial Target List for Part I - from Abdulino (Russia) to Zychlin (Poland)-Published in Its Entirety (306 pages)ĭocuments Providing Background for SAC Targeting Study Identified Most Are Still ClassifiedĬontext for the SAC Report on Nuclear Weapons Requirements 1959.

Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955–1968. The new set is a publication of the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) with the help of the academic publisher ProQuest, and builds on the Archive’s earlier ProQuest publication, U.S. The documents provide researchers with invaluable information on the missile and bomber deployments that embodied the devastating threats that underpinned Cold War deterrence and the war plans that were designed to make good on those threats. The 2,291 documents illuminate decision-making at the White House and the Defense Department, policy inputs from the State Department and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), as well as strategic intelligence analyses and reporting prepared for decision-makers. plans for the limited use of nuclear weapons. Nuclear History, 1969-1976: Weapons, Arms Control, and War Plans in an Age of Strategic Parity covers a critical period in the nuclear age: the emergence of U.S.-Soviet strategic nuclear parity, the deployment of highly accurate multiple independently-targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), the beginnings of strategic arms control, and the initial development of U.S. Edited by senior analyst William Burr, U.S.

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The National Security Archive announces the publication of a collection of more than 2,200 declassified documents on the nuclear weapons policies of the Nixon and Ford administrations. With his support, the Archive gained access to the documents at the National Archive and has followed up with an appeal for the excised information New U.S. The SAC Atomic Weapons Requirement Study resided in one of the files. In October 2014, long after the publication of Dobbs’ book One Minute to Midnight (2008), the National Archives informed him that several files of SAC documents had been declassified. The request, for specific files and histories in the records of the Strategic Air Command (RG 342), was for Dobbs’ research on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In 2006 journalist Michael Dobbs filed the Mandatory Declassification Review request to the National Archives and Records Administration that prompted the release of the SAC Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959.

“Fallout: US Plans to Nuke the World Revealed by Cold War Era Target List”Ģ3 December 2015 How the SAC Study Was Released “US Intended to Destroy Civilian Populations in Enemy Cities during Cold War According to Declassified Target List” '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” “Declassified: How the Pentagon planned to nuke the Soviet Union and China during the Cold War”

Nuclear Target List Offers Chilling Insight”

Interactive Visualizations based on Complete List of Urban Targets from SAC Study prepared byĪlex Wellerstein, Stevens Institute of Technology World-wide Press Coverage of the Nuclear Vault Posting on the SAC Target Lists

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