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They put missiles in Cuba!!! hides Turkish missiles under the carpet
makes a game about the US putting nukes under Major European population centers
I had to look up what you were referencing, and found this .
Operation Greenlight is fictional, but it's based on America's use of "Green Light teams" during the Cold War. These were cells of special forces personnel who were given small tactical nuclear bombs called "B-54 Special Atomic Demolition Munitions," or "backpack nukes." Green Light teams were deployed in Warsaw Pact countries and instructed to blend in with the local population. In the event of a Soviet invasion, they were supposed to sneak behind enemy lines and detonate their bombs.
The Americans went as far as actually deploying Green Light teams throughout Europe. The existence of the plan came to light in 1984, and the U.S. had recalled all operatives and their bombs by 1989.
jesus pogo-sticking christ, every day you learn some fresh horror about this blood-soaked fucking empire
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/america-would-have-killed-billions-nuking-russia-and-china-nuclear-war-89731
The report included questions and answers regarding the various nuclear targeting options. These ranged from attacks on enemy nuclear and conventional forces while minimizing collateral damage to enemy cities, to attacking cities as well as military forces on purpose. This latter option would have been "in order to destroy the will and ability of the Sino-Soviet Bloc to wage war, remove the enemy from the category of a major industrial power, and assure a post-war balance of power favorable to the United States."
“Should these options give more stress to population as the main target?” asked one question.
The answer was that Pentagon war plans already included the destruction of cities as a way to destroy the urban and industrial backbone. “This should result in greater population casualties in that a larger portion of the urban population may be placed at risk.”
In another Pentagon analysis “on the effect of placing greater emphasis on the attack of urban/industrial targets in order to destroy the USSR and China as viable societies, it was indicated that the achievement of a 30 per cent fatality level (i.e., 212.7 million people) in the total population (709 million people) of China would necessitate an exorbitant weight of effort.”
This was because of China’s rural society at the time. “Thus, the attack of a large number of place names [towns] would destroy only a small fraction of the total population of China. The rate of return for a [nuclear] weapon expended diminishes after accounting for the 30 top priority cities.”
