Soviet/NATO invasion and nuclear targets across the world thread

  IIRC I've read at least one of them.  Names definitely ring a bell but over the years I must have read several thousand books.  [Not as much now with the computer, plus the eyes not being what they were but quite common for me to read 3-4 books a week.]

Well here is more.



The map illustrates an amphibious operation against the Danish islands Sjaelland (upper left corner) and Bornholm (right), southern Sweden (top).

When the Warsaw Pact was formed in 1955, Poland wanted to continue to directly command its armed forces independently and was allowed, within the Pact, to retain this mission against Denmark within the framework of the offensive strategy. In the operational plan, which was established in 1961, it was the Polish armed forces that were to form the vanguard. The forces Zhukov singled out in Berlin are, however, part of the second echelon, which was to follow close on the heels of the Polish units. Although they trusted the Communist elite they put in power, the Russians did not have great confidence in the repressed people, which Zhukov remarked upon in his speech, that the Poles were regarded as requiring a controlling power. Later, the Soviet Union was to rely more on the East Germans than the Poles. For a while in the 1980s, the GDR even took over in planning the Polish mission against Denmark. When I accompanied the General Director of the Civil Defence on a visit to Poland at the beginning of the 1970s, the usual joke among the elite we met was also about Russians who had made fools of themselves. Jaruzelski restored what was to prove to be a treacherous system. The Solidarity Crisis was actually to be the beginning of the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the end of the Cold War.

According to Piotrowski, in the plan (OP 61) the Polish First and Second Armies would attack Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. In two or three days, they would break up the Jutland army corps and reach the Elbe and the Danish-German border. In the second phase of the operation, they would reach the Rhine and Moselle over the plains of Lower Saxony and Holland. It was the Polish Fourth Army from the Warsaw area that, somewhat reinforced, would succeed in the actual attack on Denmark. It was more poorly equipped than the forward-deployed armies and its most important reinforcement at the beginning of the 1960s was the deployment of nuclear charges against air bases and population targets, including Hamburg and Copenhagen.

The attack on Jutland would be facilitated through Russian airborne troops taking the Kiel Canal at an early stage. East German units would take part in landing on the islands. The Soviet Baltic Fleet would open up the Danish sounds and the East German Navy the Kiel Canal. The landing areas on the Danish islands were to be attacked first using highly volatile chemical weapons. In the event of nuclear war, the Poles themselves anticipated losses of up to 50% in the units deployed during the first few days.

First comes Frigate, then Carrier and the last one if i am correct is called submarine.

A that series, i know it, the British version of the American The Day After.

You want to give children nightmares.

I'd have to guess that whatever they were, they were unsettling.

I'm getting a house in Brixworth. It's just between all the big boomie stuff, and there is no way that anyone would get hurt there. According to the map.