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There are also a large number of Austrian and Finnish targets on these nuclear yield tables. Those countries, however, were not and are not NATO members.
My assumption is the tables are genuine (for a number of reasons). Would you agree @LawDavF @heatherwilly @ArmsControlWonk?pic.twitter.com/iLiseYeGID
I checked the target numbers of several of the non-odd ones (e.g. eastern targets) and they match up with the target lists from 1958 that @NSArchive got released. If it's a fake it's an exceptionally good one. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear-Target-List-Declassified-First-Ever/ …
Wow impressive work. Thank you.
It doesn’t seem fake, but it’s not a US targeting study...it’s something else but I can’t make out what. 
I mean, everything has a VN number, so they're looking at what kind of damage and best kind of pressure used to knock it out. So it's not necessarily a list of US targets but it's all clearly in a targeting context.
Could it be contingency plans for if those cities were taken by the Soviets?
I mean it would be a pretty nasty one. Anything with a VN number higher than 12 is getting an H-bomb, at least per their 1958 methodology.
How many of the targets in the target encyclopedia that got purged post cold war were "just in case" contingency or in there for thoroughness? Could also be an aid for RISOP modeling?
No clue. A list by itself lacks context. The 1958 study had a section at the front that explained what it was trying to accomplish, etc.
...right! the 1956 study for 1959. (I'm gonna blame being on the road for mixed numbers!)
(Though this doesn't mean everything on there is a US target. Though it is interesting that they give everything a VN number.)
It would be interesting to give it a really close look-over to see how consistent the various numbers are (SAC/WAC, VN, etc.).
(Which, just to reiterate: I am saying that whomever made this list had access to other target data. I don't know what it's really meant to be a list of. Except that the Soviet targets data matches with other obvious "target" data.)
I was wondering about that. Good job.
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