U.S. Declassifies Disturbing List Of Cold War Nuclear TargetsBy Joshua Krause However, the government has always been vague about whether they would intentionally strike civilians for its own sake, during a nuclear war. We know our government deliberately targeted civilians with nukes during World War Two, but afterward they tried to distance themselves from those tactics, at least publicly. Behind the scenes however, the feds were (and probably still are) just as enthusiastic about total war tactics as they had ever been. We know this with certainty now, after the U.S. declassified the Air Forces list nuclear targets from the Cold War. For the first time, the National Archives and Records Administration has released a detailed list of the United States potential targets for atomic bombers in the event of war with the Soviet Union, showing the number and the variety of targets on its territory, as well as in Eastern Europe and China. It lists many targets for systematic destruction in major cities, including 179 in Moscow (like Agricultural Equipment and Transformers, Heavy), 145 in Leningrad and 91 in East Berlin. The targets are referred to as DGZs or designated ground zeros. While many are industrial facilities, government buildings and the like, one for each city is simply designated Population. The 800-page document titled Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959 is little more than a spreadsheet for nuclear holocaust. It was part of the militarys bomb as you go strategy. At a time when ICBMs had yet to be invented, Air Force bombers would be instructed to fly into Soviet air space, and hit whatever they could depending on the priority of the target. This spreadsheet determined that priority for the bombers, which included 1,100 air fields to prevent the Soviets from striking back, followed by countless industrial targets. Afterward, the deliberate massacre of civilians would begin. What is particularly striking in the SAC study is the role of population targeting. Moscow and its suburbs, like the Leningrad area, included distinct population targets (category 275), not further specified. So did all the other cities recorded in the two sets of target lists. In other words, people as such, not specific industrial activities, were to be destroyed. What the specific locations of these population targets were cannot now be determined. The SAC study includes the Bombing Encyclopedia numbers for those targets, but the BE itself remains classified (although under appeal). The SAC study does not include any explanation for population targeting, but it was likely a legacy of earlier Air Force and Army Air Force thinking about the impact of bombing raids on civilian morale. For example, in a 1940 Air Corps Tactical School lecture, Major Muir Fairchild argued that an attack on a countrys economic structure must be to so reduce the morale of the enemy civilian population through fearof death or injury for themselves or loved ones, [so] that they would prefer our terms of peace to continuing the struggle, and that they would force their government to capitulate. Thinking along those lines continued into the post-war period when social scientists studied the possible impact of nuclear bombing on civilian morale. At the time, the US military was still operating under the same total war doctrine that had guided them from the end of the Civil War, until World War Two. If the destruction of the civilian population ever became necessary to win the war, then so be it. As General Curtis LeMay so aptly put it after he was asked about the firebombing of Japan if the war is shortened by a single day, the attack will have served its purpose. In other words, our military always felt that it was okay to target civilians, so long as it led to the swift end of a war, and thus, fewer casualties for all parties in the long run. At least, that was their twisted moral justification for slaughtering civilians, and its clear that notion was the impetus behind this list of nuclear targets. Let it never be forgotten, that this how our government views warfare. To them, the ends always justify the means, and the moment it becomes necessary to attain victory, civilians are indistinguishable from combatants. The people running our government pretend to act civilized statesman, but they have a lot more common with likes of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun. Image Credit Joshua Krause is a reporter, writer and researcher at The Daily Sheeple. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a freelance writer and author. You can follow Joshuas reports at Facebook or on his personal Twitter. Joshuas website is Strange Danger. Not only remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.Also remember Bagdag in 2003 during George Bush IIs Crusade. Remember Serbia during the 90s and the alleged collateral damage in the massacre by Bill Clinton of the Belgrade population with the bombing of water and electrical facilities with no military use. Remember Mi Lai in South Vietnam in the 70s and the bombing of schools in North Vietnam in 1967 perpetrated by the John McCains. Remember the indiscriminate bombing of Berlin in 1945 by the end of WW II. But propaganda is more powerful than memories. Now we are facing Russians air strikes in ISIS controlled areas at markets where what mainly is sold is gasoline and other combustibles for the vehicles of ISIS relatives and supporters and to warm up the homes of those that feel acceptable living among the terrorist resisting to seek refuge.. I find it interesting that this was released during NATOs struggle to maintain control over Syria. I think this is NATO saying it will go all the way if it doesnt get everything it wants. So we have advanced technologically but we have all the humanity of a conquering Roman Legion who consistently put populations to the sword or into slavery. Yea religion! If they ever cared they would build deep underground bunkers for every man jack and girl sally and stock it w/ food. ya know like the deep underground hotels that the gold collar scum made for their chickenshit selves, with our hard earned labor that they collect in taxes. Blowback is from future generations of the defeated. It may take 3 generations for the covert forces to assemble into asymetrical warfare infiltrating critical defense n retaliatory MIC systems. But its a sure thing history is the witness. Of course history is slanted to the victor since they write the official history. To refute the official version is just slander and revisionist. It seems curious that the holocaust plaques went from 6 million to 1.4 million in less than 50 years. Gratefully visitors had the common sense to photograph the plaques for historical record. The method of execution was also changed from gassing to simply died. Officially of the victim corpses examined the result was death by typhus not one victim in the stack was gassed WTH? Did the gassing and cremation stop when the allies invaded? This comment could get me prison time in Germany, and god help us , Canada. 