ORAC
26th Nov 2005, 05:46
The Times: (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1892139,00.html)
POLAND yesterday opened up secret files of the former Warsaw Pact which confirmed that the Soviet-led military alliance was ready to accept the nuclear annihilation of Europe in a war with Nato.
“These documents are crucial for educating the public about the way Poland was kept as an unwilling ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War,” Radoslaw Sikorski, the Defence Minister, told a news conference in Warsaw.
Mr Sikorski showed a 1979 map as an example, which detailed key sites in the event of a nuclear war. It envisaged nuclear strikes on Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Munich, Cologne, Bonn, and other West European cities. Britain and France did not appear to feature in the Warsaw Pact’s theatre of war.
“It shows a classic Warsaw Pact exercise, namely a counter-attack, as the ‘forces of progress’ would never attack first, which involved going all the way to the Atlantic. It includes expected points of impact of nuclear weapons, both Soviet and Nato,” Mr Sikorski said..............
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Interesting that the two countries not on the target list were the two with their own nuclear weapons. :hmm:
The Russians controlled WP nuclear weapons and while a strike on Amsterdam might have lead to a strike on Prague, a bomb on London or Paris might have lead to a sudden increase in the average daily temperature in central Moscow.........
POLAND yesterday opened up secret files of the former Warsaw Pact which confirmed that the Soviet-led military alliance was ready to accept the nuclear annihilation of Europe in a war with Nato.
“These documents are crucial for educating the public about the way Poland was kept as an unwilling ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War,” Radoslaw Sikorski, the Defence Minister, told a news conference in Warsaw.
Mr Sikorski showed a 1979 map as an example, which detailed key sites in the event of a nuclear war. It envisaged nuclear strikes on Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Munich, Cologne, Bonn, and other West European cities. Britain and France did not appear to feature in the Warsaw Pact’s theatre of war.
“It shows a classic Warsaw Pact exercise, namely a counter-attack, as the ‘forces of progress’ would never attack first, which involved going all the way to the Atlantic. It includes expected points of impact of nuclear weapons, both Soviet and Nato,” Mr Sikorski said..............
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Interesting that the two countries not on the target list were the two with their own nuclear weapons. :hmm:
The Russians controlled WP nuclear weapons and while a strike on Amsterdam might have lead to a strike on Prague, a bomb on London or Paris might have lead to a sudden increase in the average daily temperature in central Moscow.........