Posted on 05/22/2005 9:24:29 AM PDT by spanalot
What was most surprising about the papers?
These military plans and after-action reports show how unrealistic the Soviets were in planning for conflicts that included nuclear launches. Military planners assumed that cities like Munich, Vienna, and other major urban centers would be obliterated by nuclear weapons, yet within a matter of days they assumed that Warsaw Pact forces would be able to sweep through those areas with no ill effects. It's very clear that they completely glossed over the reality of what it would mean to be marching through a nuclear wasteland. It's only in 1987--after the Chernobyl accident--that a Polish leader was able to openly say to the Kremlin that "one shouldn't imagine being able to enjoy a cup of coffee in Paris six days after a nuclear exchange."
(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...
What is scary is how much grief the Reagan administration took for mentioning the Soviets had no problem using nukes.
ping
The Gip was right on.
The Chernobyl plant needs to be buried. At one time there was talk of an alternative to the Panama Canal. A string of A-Bombs would be buried and detonated to create a sea level canal across Costa Rica. The cratering would create the canal with no radioactivity venting to the atmosphere. This was part of the A0Devices for peaceful uses program.
If a string of A-Bombs were buried in a vertical string below Chernobyl and were detonated sequentially the crater of the first would slump and the plant would fall to the bottom of the crater then the second bomb detonates. Do this ten times and the plant and radioactivity could be lowered to a mile below the surface. Eventually side explosions or plain old bull dozers would seal the hole.
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Bump and Ping.
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