Totality plan

Plan Totality was the plan for a nuclear attack that US General Dwight D. Eisenhower worked out in 1945, after the Potsdam Conference , on the instructions of President Harry S. Truman .

The plan was to attack the Soviet Union with 20 to 30 atomic bombs. The following 20 Soviet cities were in a first strike destroyed: Baku , Gorki , Grozny , Irkutsk , Yaroslavl , Kazan , Kuibyshev , Leningrad , Magnitogorsk , Molotov , Moscow , Nizhny Tagil , Novosibirsk , Omsk , Saratov , Stalinsk , Sverdlovsk , Tashkent , Tbilisi and Chelyabinsk .

See also

• Operation Unthinkable
• Operation Dropshot

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michio Kaku, Daniel Axelrod: To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans. South End Press, Boston 1987, pp. 30-31.