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Soviet Stratgy for Nuclear War, by Douglass and Hoebert (This book is a couple decades old.) said that the #3 target, after our own nuclear capability and military C³I is the power grid.

The targeting is fairly obvious to anyone who thinks about how to bring down our society. Perhaps not so obvious to ordinary US residents...

[Ancesthntr]

Soviet Stratgy for Nuclear War

Excellent, though scary, book. I've had it since the mid-80's, and I review it every few years or so just to remind me of what could have been.

[Poohbah]

Soviet Stratgy for Nuclear War, by Douglass and Hoebert (This book is a couple decades old.) said that the #3 target, after our own nuclear capability and military C³I is the power grid.

True. But in the course of trying to target sets #1 and #2, they'd hit so many targets in set #3 that the results would be similar to a deliberate attack against the grid.