1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets

Re:1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets by xg15 on Saturday January 20, 2024 @04:20PM (#39072476)

A bit sobering that there is a target right in the center of Berlin with several other targets in close vicinity - a mere 7 years after the Berlin Airlift. I guess the US compassion for Berliners did have limits after all.

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Re:1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets by hnu234 on Saturday January 20, 2024 @08:33PM (#39074555)

> I guess the US compassion for Berliners did have limits after all.

I think the indiscriminate firebombing and targeting of german civilians in ww2 showed there is no such thing as 'US compassion'. It was calculated propaganda.

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Re:1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets by ivan_gammel on Saturday January 20, 2024 @04:33PM (#39072588)

That would include US citizen too. They probably just realistically looked at the survival chances of West Berlin in case of full scale war. Soviets were confident that with conventional warfare they would reach the Channel in mere weeks, nuclear was really the only deterrent.

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Re:1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets by wolverine876 on Saturday January 20, 2024 @06:59PM (#39073896)

The war was going to be there. Should NATO not attack invading Soviet forces? Then they'd be in a safe zone all the way to the Atlantic.

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