the US deployed backpack-sized nuclear weapons to Europe for decades as part of a stay-behind Gladio type operation, whose intent was to detonate nukes guerilla style in a Soviet-overrun Europe
There was also a plan during the cold war in case of war where US would nuke every transport node in Poland (that is basically every city above 20000 inhabitants) to block Soviet and Polish armies from reinforcing East Germany. And of course it didn’t plan to bomb even East Germany itself, they are not Slavs after all.
the US deployed backpack-sized nuclear weapons to Europe for decades as part of a stay-behind Gladio type operation, whose intent was to detonate nukes guerilla style in a Soviet-overrun Europe
The Littlest Boy | Foreign Policy
linking an archive because this article has suspiciously been removed from FP’s website, just loads a blank page.
There was also a plan during the cold war in case of war where US would nuke every transport node in Poland (that is basically every city above 20000 inhabitants) to block Soviet and Polish armies from reinforcing East Germany. And of course it didn’t plan to bomb even East Germany itself, they are not Slavs after all.
It’s like these plans were written by former nazis or something
Definitely not the Prussian junkers who would want lands back, just slightly radioactive from all the fallout being blown from Polish Wastelands.
TBH, some highway interchanges in FRG built in 1960s included slots for a nuclear device to completely level all infrastructure around.