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US nuclear targeting category priorities in the USSR, 1972. Kind of fascinating/horrifying that urban/industrial is #1 priority even if Soviet nukes have not yet been launched at the US (e.g. if the US is launching a "preventative"/first-strike nuclear attack).pic.twitter.com/CLKlBOc8tH
I'm also kind of fascinated with this footnote, which seems to indicate that Gen. Tho. Power's "at the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win!" idea was actual policy at one point.pic.twitter.com/7hjJDlqVbY
Full report is about giving the President more options — interesting mix-and-match categories of attack:pic.twitter.com/lCMWYvR1L5
#1 priority only for weapons planning allocation. Actual strikes would follow the order listed below (U/I areas are #3 and Task Charlie), beginning with the earlier BRAVO (blunting) mission and DELTA which eliminated Soviet war-making capability (hence U/I targeting).pic.twitter.com/9xgcN1Bkeb
Right — as the part I included in the screenshot makes clear, this is about weapon allocation priority, not order of attack. Still plenty interesting that U/I gets the highest level of priority in both scenarios.
From @DanielEllsberg's The Doomsday Machine, quoting John H. Rubel, former deputy director of defense research and engineering:pic.twitter.com/KKYuz7lD42
What I find most "fascinating/horrifying" about that document is that these are war crimes. http://www.dannen.com/decision/int-law.html …
Are we even talking about war crimes in a nuclear war, lol
Totally in line with description by @DanielEllsberg - there are no tactical nukes and no such thing as limited nuke exchange. I presume the same thinking still pervades current JCS planning? JCS nuke war planning was / is an absolute crazytown insane activity.
The fact that we are all still here is nothing short of an absolute miracle.
Good god. As noted already, that’s war crimes stuff right there.
OfC nukular war isn’t very far from supreme crime against humanity, no matter which way you slice it.
Exactly. The politicians and military want to treat it as if it were extraordinary war, but within objective parameters—there would be winners and losers. Amazing after all this time, they still don’t understand that it’s existential.
What does c^3 mean in this context?
Command Control Communications = C^3.
Priority 1 in both scenarios is crazy to imagine! Interesting that C3 infrastructure was not 1 in both cases - or how in pre-emption how strategic forces was not priority 1.
Residual general purpose....
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