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Thande
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Major industrial centre I suppose. The middle part of Pennsylvania where you are really must be as wild and empty as everyone says if the Soviets totally ignore it like that...
Thande
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Not to my knowledge I'm afraid. I did once transfer a list of suspected Soviet nuclear targets in the UK to a map though. Memo to self, in the event of a nuclear war, avoid Lincolnshire (it's all the airbases). TURNSTILE (also known by other code names) is the UK alternative seat of government in a bunker complex under Wiltshire.
Thande
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The first one just through google image search; the second one I made myself.
Unfortunately I don't think there was ever a definitive list for that. It would depend on the type of WW3 for instance. One example which would affect Czechoslovakia (but probably not anything like what would happen in P&S) is the British late 1960s plan for preventive nuclear warfare to halt Soviet conventional attacks on Western Europe while trying to prevent an escalation:
Thanks anyway.
My preliminary list is guesswork as well and concrete info is hard to come by even now, when most Cold War civil defence stuff has been declassified.
Thande
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A crudely recoloured map I made of Chinese viceroyalties (Chinese viceroys or 'Zongdu' are also known as governors-general in some sources) based on the map of Qing provinces given above. I'm not 100% certain on all the information here as some sources give conflicting info, so do speak up if you know better.
Thande
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All the political platforms/manifestoes of US presidential campaigns going back to the 1840s. (Via US Election Atlas).
some picks are probably rather random, because i would expect that the missile farms on the Wy/Ne border/Mt and Nd also would be a target in a limited exchange (seems like logical target for a soviet megaton warhead). Especially in a soviet first strike scenario.
Can't vouch for accuracy, but there's some interesting stuff on Britain between the Roman and Anglo-Saxon eras here, including some nice maps...
http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/kingdoms/index.html
Bruce
http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/kingdoms/index.html
Bruce
On that nuclear note, has anyone ever seen a target list for Canada?
PS: One thing that jumps out at me about the US map is why nothing aimed at the Sioux Locks? It might have something to do with being right on the border, but it's a not insignificant bit of infrastructure that could be put out of commission very easily, and seems more worthwhile than a lot of the urban centre overkill, especially in a 2,000 warhead scenario.
PS: One thing that jumps out at me about the US map is why nothing aimed at the Sioux Locks? It might have something to do with being right on the border, but it's a not insignificant bit of infrastructure that could be put out of commission very easily, and seems more worthwhile than a lot of the urban centre overkill, especially in a 2,000 warhead scenario.
Thande
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A map from a 1958 atlas in a very weird projection, which shows the state of the Cold War power blocs at that point.
Thande
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Well, it was. The style of map they use on the UN flag also makes it clear--there are maps in the Times Atlas of World History showing how both sides' missiles would have arced over the North Pole to strike each other in the event of nuclear war. It's not at all clear how close the US/Canada and USSR are on a traditional map, and the missile trails over the North Pole look rather distorted on those, as seen in WarGames for instance.
