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So I uploaded the yield tables with some context (these are all the nuclear-related materials from a larger leak, so this is all the context that can be helpful here). 30 pages.
https://archive.org/details/1980-kgb-nuclear-leak …
Thank you @wellerstein @NuclearAnthro @ArmsControlWonk @NarangVipin & others
Taking a quick look before going to bed for an early flight: 1. there are only about ~540 or so total targets. That's pretty low by SAC standards. 2. the Middle Eastern ones are all type "P" (airfield). 3. the list of scaled HOB yields is interesting (2.5 kt - 1.4 Mt).
4. I find the capitalized countries on page 11-12 interesting, including fact there are many not represented in this list. 5. The fact that some of these pages are only graded CONFIDENTIAL (a low level of classification) kind of interesting.
All of which are just food for thought. I will sleep on it a bit. It would be interesting to really plug through all of the coordinates, SAC numbers, etc., and see how they match up with other docs.
My current "most plausible to me" theory is that this is a SAC doc used to establish numbers of warheads for weird scenarios they might imagine unfolding. But this is just a theory.
1/ I've had a dive into some of the numbers, and there are large bits clearly missing. The page numbers or lack thereof is somewhat telling (they're not even in order).
2/ There are two different table sets, one for target info and another for actual grid references (lat/lon and UTM). The target IDs don't really seem to overlap, and there are many missing, so there are probably a lot more than 540 targets in the original document.
3/ Data quality is bad and OCR won't pick up many of the characters, but it should be possible to pick out many locations from the final 120 targets in the last 3 tables. Most aren't based in Russia, though the targets at 41U are probably the nuclear sites around Chelyabinsk.
4/ I'm happy to put a table together manually to see what I can get from this if people are interested though.
Have a good flight and sleep well!pic.twitter.com/ppfxU6SJQY
W/o looking at targets per se but just looking in narrative section it seems like perhaps this is less about nuking cities and more about airfields, ports, hwy intersections, bridges, etc:pic.twitter.com/W0HTygutmM
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