Soviet/NATO invasion and nuclear targets across the world thread

Originally posted on the United States Armed Forces thread.

A spiel I made for The Cold War in the Philippines Facebook group.

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Did you know?

"Keep your friends close and your enemies, closer."

The U.S. removed China from the nuclear SIOP in 1982. The U.S. encouraged China to provide overflight rights to USAF strategic bombers during this period to "counter Soviet hegemony".

The U.S. and China were essentially quasi-allies.

Though it was not completely removed at this special courtship period.

A separate and smaller war plan was prepared for nuclear war with China. The Joint Chiefs of Staff published an update of the nuclear annex to the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP FY82-83). This annex (Annex C) ordered PACOM and SAC to prepare a Concept Plan (CONPLAN) for the employment of nuclear weapons against the “power projection capabilities” of China. As a result of the new guidance, the SIOP-6 war plan that went into effect on October 1, 1983, was a “major plan revision” that focused entirely on the Soviet Union. The plan contained four SSBN target packages for the Pacific Command: Two were “time-shared” with SSBNs operating in the Atlantic and Mediterranean under the command of Atlantic Command, and probably covered targets in the Soviet Union. The other two target packages were unique for the Pacific Command418 and probably covered targets in the Soviet Far East. Targets in China were covered by Strategic Reserve Force submarines when they were not on Hard Alert against the Soviet Union under SIOP as well as by bombers.

On the other hand, the DIA indicated that three of 80 DF-5 ICBMs were targeted to strike the continental United States at this period of the late 1980s.

The plan to conduct separate attack China was dropped by the Pentagon was dropped by the Pentagon in 1984, the same year when Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang visited the United States.

It was only in 1992 when USSTRATCOM (successor of SAC) reincorporated China into its nuclear war plans.

Sources:
Tong Zhao (2020). How (and How Seriously) Does U.S. Missile Defense Threaten China? Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. carnegieendowment.org/2020/06/29/how-and-how-seriously-does-u.s.-missile-defense-threaten-china-pub-82122
Further Reading:
Kristensen, H.M., Norris, R.S., and McKenzie, M.G. (2006). Chinese Nuclear Forces and U.S. Nuclear War Planning. The Federation of American Scientists and the Natural Defense Counci

Amazing how 90% of history is lost or hidden.

Now this will be useful for AH settings like 1983: Doomsday and Protect & Survive.

Can you send me the tweet of this?