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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/1950s-us-nuclear-target-list-offers-chilling-insight/ar-BBnQleB?ocid=spartanntp

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear-Target-List-Declassified-First-Ever/

Pretty fascinating (especially the amount of nukes they were ready to use on cities like Leningrad, that surprised me). Thoughts?

War... war never changes.

Originally posted by Lucius
War... war never changes.

Yeah, it does.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
Yeah, it does.

Not according to Ron Perlman.

Thats pretty insane, isnt it?
I totally get mutually assured destruction, but that was a bit overboard.

There is no overkill when the stakes are of an existential nature. Some of the bombs might not reach their targets. The more bombs, the more that will make it through whatever defenses have been prepared.

Consider that the US constructed around seventy thousand nuclear weapons in total, over the course of the Cold War. Reason and civilized norms no longer apply when your goal is the extermination of a country's entire population. Gotta kill em all.