In 1945, The Pentagon Estimated That 204 Atomic Bombs Could Destroy The Soviet Union -- Business Insider
"My God, what have we done," Enola Gay copilot Robert Lewis reportedly said as the Superfortress was making its way back to base on August 6, 1945, after dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
World War II had ended with grisly evidence of what atomic warfare actually was. But just weeks after its end, the Pentagon was already hypothesizing about what an entire wave of nuclear attacks could achieve.
American defense planners came up with the following "estimated bomb requirements for the destruction of Russian strategic areas" in September of 1945:
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My Comment: What I find amazing about this report is that a few weeks after the end of the Second World War .... Pentagon planners were already planning war strategies against the Soviet Union.
