How did the US/USSR divide nuclear targets between counterforce and countervalue?

During the Cold War how did the US/USSR divide nuclear targets between counterforce and countervalue?

Which category did most of their likely targets fall into?
 

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Counterforce is useless unless you are doing a first strike of course. So a retaliation strike will be almost entirely
counter value. A first strike will still probably lean towards countervalue but will have some counterforce aspect.
 
During the Cold War how did the US/USSR divide nuclear targets between counterforce and countervalue?

Which category did most of their likely targets fall into?

I'd say it a 50/50 thing, though the countervalue targets were the targets that would give the most "prestige" and thus a higher priority into making the destruction total(bigger bomb) whilst the counterforce ones needed to be precise(smaller bombs).

i think the general idea was that the enemy ability to strike back was not going to be prevented anyway, therefor countervalue was always a big part of any attack, wether first trike or retaliation.
 
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