Choosing Targets for Nuclear Weapons

conventional forces, military bases and airfields, civilian airfields that could be used by military forces in wartime, space launch facilities, etc. This list has grown relentlessly, from an NSTDB of 4,100 targets in 1960 to some 50,000 today, as each side has expanded its military facilities to offset the other side's expansion. ................
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