Targets on the territory of the Soviet Union would be attacked according to the SIOP-62 plan.
During the Cold War, American strategists secretly drew up a comprehensive action plan (SIOP) to deal with the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.
In 1962, the first plan called SIOP-62 was launched.
Military expert Kyle Mizokami said SIOP plans to pre-emptively attack about 1,000 Soviet nuclear facilities if there are signs that war is about to break out.
In this preemptive strike, 199 Soviet cities with populations over 50,000 would be attacked, causing casualties to 56% of the urban population and 37% of the total Soviet population.
In the all-out attack scenario, 295 Soviet cities would be destroyed, with only 5 cities with a population of over 50,000 remaining intact.
Overall, SIOP-62 estimates that an all-out American attack on the Soviet Union, China, and the Warsaw Pact would kill 355 million people in the first 72 hours.
Accordingly, in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack on the United States, an estimated 60-88 million Americans would die.
American target if the Soviet Union responded with 2,000 warheads (black dot) and 500 warheads (triangle).
A report by the US Strategic Air Command (SAC) estimated that 1,215 US strategic targets would be attacked by the Soviet Union with about 3,000 nuclear warheads with a total destructive power of 1,340 Megatons, equivalent to 1.34
Because the attack is aimed at fortified targets, especially intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos, Moscow will use R-36M ballistic missiles (NATO designation: SS-18 Satan),
An attack on American cities in the Midwest, where the country’s nuclear forces are located, would kill 34 million people and injure 25-64 million.
The reason is that the destructive power of US nuclear weapons in the 1960s was greater than that of the Soviet Union, while Soviet nuclear weapons were mainly installed on bombers.
The Soviet bomber base, which was the priority target of the US attack, was located close to an area with many civilians.
SIOP confirmed that the ICBM silo will be the first US target to be attacked.
Although the threat of nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union has ended, the US still faces the risk of a similar war breaking out with China and Russia.
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