The Atomic Demise- a realistic 1981 atomic war simulation attempt

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This is a list of Cold War era atomic war or conventional war targets! They are chosen for reasons of Cold War geo-political, military, economic and\or infrastructural development reasons, etc. It is not intended to be biased or one sided!

The American's Castle Bravo test blast.

The Atomic Cannon (Upshot-Knothole Grable) 15 kt

The America atomic cannon test (Upshot-Knothole Grable), in which it was firing a 15 kt atomic shell.

View of Downtown Los Angeles, the central business district of the region. It would have been nuked by the Soviets if the Cold War had gone hot. Author: Marshall Astor from San Pedro, United States.

Aerial view of the Brent Cross interchange, facing north. This once innovative 1965 motorway interchange and may have been nuked in if the Cold War went hot. Author:Isochrone.

View of the port town of Greenock from Auchmountain Road. It was bombed in WW 2 and may have been nuked in if the Cold War went hot. Auothor: Trougnouf (Benoit Brummer).

The nuke hit these places in 1981: Peterborough (strategic transport links and a major city) 100kt, RAF Upwood 1x 10Kt, RAF Alconbury 1x 10Kt, RAF Molesworth 1x 10Kt, RAF Waterbeach 1x 10kt, Bassingbourn Barracks 1x 10Kt, Cambridge (government outpost, strategic transport links and a major city) 2x 100kt or 1x 200kt. Don't beleive the claims of the American, Russian or British political establishment, atomic war is not fun-it's a hellhole that even frightens the PRC!

The nuke hit these places in 1981: Kursk (strategic transport links and regional government centre)- 1x 335kt or 350kt, or 2x 150kt, Khalino airbase/Kursk Vostochny Airport- 1x 5kt.

The once closed city of Perm. If the Cold War had gone 'hot' Perm would have been nuked.

View on the Taima River from Devil's Tower in Yelabuga in Russia. Russia would be destroyed and heavy irradiated.

Tamanrasset, Algeria. Well, at least they will survive until the water runs out.

An Italian air force AMX Fighter aircraft lands at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., following a Red Flag 09-5 training mission Aug. 26, 2009. It would have been nuke by the USSR in 1981!

After the alternate reality's 1981 attack there would be more unused stations which would decay in to ruins due to so many people dying off. Thankfully this is the real world's Brockmoor Halt that closed in 1932, with the line also closing in 1994. Image author: JoshuaIsTheFalco.

An aerial shot of Vejrö island on 2003-08-21. It is very flat and pancake like indeed! It would not be nuked in a 1981 atomic war.

Hanoi city as seen by they SPOT Satellite in 2002. It would have been nuked in a 1981 atomic war. Author: Cnes - Spot Image.

Southern part of the inner city part of Osnabrück. NATO forces were stationed in and near Osnabrück making it a target if the Cold War went 'hot'.

An unpaved road in Atakora, northern Benin, near the with the Togo border. Well, at least they are not going to be nuked in a Cold War Atomic\nuclear war! Author: Martin Wegmann Wegmann.

Disclaimer

It is inherently a mixture of research in to both known facts and released secrets, along with much educated guess work! Most, if not all targets were likely to have been hit, but with a selection of nukes, not all the available types of them all at once!

The probable 1981 nuking pattern if there had been an atomic war in the early 1980s

*Bold text= no survivors left after the attack.

1. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Macau
2. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Taiwan
3. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Bangladesh
4. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Malta
5. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Pakistan
6. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Singapore
7. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Denmark
8. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Haiti
9. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Liberia
10. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the Brazil
11. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the Honduras
12. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the El Salvador
13. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the Bangladesh
14. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for E. Germany
15. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for W. Germany
16. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for USSR
17. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for S. Korea
18. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for N. Korea
19. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for PRC
20. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Cameroon
21. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Turkey
22. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Zambia
23. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Botswana
24. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Namibia
25. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Ghana
26. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Guinea
27. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the India
28. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Afghanistan
29. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the Philippines
30. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Bhutan
31. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Zaire
32. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Gabon
33. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Mozambique
34. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Tanzania
35. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Benin
36. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Oman
37. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Qatar
38. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Bahrain
39. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Switzerland
40. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Sudan
41. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Morocco
42. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Chile
43. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Peru
44. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Argentina
45. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Mexico
46. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Algeria
47. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Tunisia
48. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the Lebanon
49. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for France
    1. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Réunion
    2. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for French Guiana
50. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Canada
51. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Japan
52. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Finland
53. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Sweden
54. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Poland
55. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the UK
    1. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the British Indian Ocean Territory
    2. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Ascension Island
    3. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the British Sovereign Bases of Akrotiri and Dhekelia‎‎
    4. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Gibraltar
    5. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the Falkland Islands
56. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Cambodia
57. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Hong Kong
58. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for S. Yemen
59. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for N. Yemen
60. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Egypt
61. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Djibouti
62. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Somalia
63. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Angola
64. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Libya
65. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Kuwait
66. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Jordan
67. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Israel
68. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Saudi Arabia
69. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for UAE
70. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Iran
71. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Iraq
72. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Syria
73. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Taiwan
74. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Burma
75. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Colombia
76. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Venezuela
77. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Kenya
78. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the Netherlands
79. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Czechoslovakia
80. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Hungary
81. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Bulgaria
82. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Belgium
83. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Austria
84. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Denmark
    1. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Greenland
    2. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Faroe Islands
85. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Iceland
86. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Norway
87. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Luxembourg
88. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Romania
89. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Portugal
90. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Spain
91. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Greece
92. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Cyprus
93. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Italy
94. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Mongolia
95. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Grenada
96. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Jamaica
97. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Guatemala
98. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the Republic of Panama
99. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Cuba
100. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Australia
101. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for New Zealand
102. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Nicaragua
103. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for USA
     1. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the Panama Canal Zone
     2. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Puerto Rico
     3. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the United States Virgin Islands
     4. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for United States Minor Outlying Islands
     5. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the N. Marina Islands
     6. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Guam
104. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Indonesia
105. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Malaysia
106. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Vietnam
107. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Thailand
108. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the Congo
109. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Ethiopia
110. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for Nigeria
111. The probable 1981 nuking pattern for CAR

Also see

1. "Poland is 'toast'!"
2. A user compiled possible, but very hard line, Soviet UK nuclear attack target list for 1981
3. Atomic warfare information notes.
4. UK atomic war attack predictions and civil defence plans
5. The week of war policy
6. Seven days to the River Rhine (1979)
7. Atomic accidents and disasters
8. Atomic\nuclear war
9. A nuclear\atomic holocaust or nuclear apocalypse
10. Eastern block tank quality and stats