Warsaw Pact's atom strike map
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The Times:
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.
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.
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.........
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nteresting that the two countries not on the target list were the two with their own nuclear weapons.
Could it be that the "Warsaw Pact" client states would be given the honour of mopping up the imperialist lackeys of central Europe with IRBM/battlefield weps The destruction of serious players (ie us, the yanks and the frogs) would be reserved for the glorious missile corps of the red army and their ICBMs and thus would not feature on a map given to their comrades (who they probably didn't trust that much anyway)
Perhaps they were concerned about the Global Warming that the present UK Government is obsessed with now
Global warming doesn't exist - it's merely an alternative mechanism for the liberation of the ice caps!
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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.
