

The request, for specific files and histories in the records of the Strategic Air Command (RG 342), was for Dobbs’ research on the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 2006 journalist Michael Dobbs filed the Mandatory Declassification Review request to the National Archives and Records Administration that prompted the release of the SAC Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959. “Fallout: US Plans to Nuke the World Revealed by Cold War Era Target List”Ģ3 December 2015 How the SAC Study Was Released “US Intended to Destroy Civilian Populations in Enemy Cities during Cold War According to Declassified Target List”

"The Soviet cities that America would have wiped off the map in a nuclear war: Newly declassified target list shows how US planned to target capitals purely to kill their populations” “Declassified: How the Pentagon planned to nuke the Soviet Union and China during the Cold War” Nuclear Target List Offers Chilling Insight” Interactive Visualizations based on Complete List of Urban Targets from SAC Study prepared byĪlex Wellerstein, Stevens Institute of Technology World-wide Press Coverage of the Nuclear Vault Posting on the SAC Target Lists
