Polish Archive Reveals Soviet Attack Plan

Poland is risking further strains in relations with Russia by throwing open Cold War-era archives that include a 1979 Soviet retaliation plan that envisaged nuclear strikes on western European cities in the event of a war with NATO.

The map foresaw the nuclear annihilation of Poland and was dotted with red mushroom clouds over the German cities of Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart and the site of NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

For those BP contributors who spent the duration of the cold war in diapers, this is huge. Revealing the innermost workings of the Warsaw pact will go far toward making sure the insanity of that era stays in the past.