The Nuclear Attack Planning Base 1990 was an official estimate of the potential physical effects of a Soviet nuclear attack on the population of the United States, including detailed county-by-county assessments of damage due to blast overpressure, fire and radiation.
"This publication was provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security, for its academic and historical value only."
~If you've ever wondered what the Russians were planning for your town... A classic example of Homeland Security-type concerns back in the dark-days of the 1990's. Should we assume Russia similarly estimated what we planned to do to them? I wonder if they knew as much about our nuclear capabilities as we knew about theirs? I wonder whose estimates were more accurate?
When I was young I remember thinking there was a little Russian kid just like me, living in the middle of his country... I heard about the Russian 'steppes'... and if we ever met we'ld be good friends even though he was a godless commie and I was a god-loving American. My commie doppelganger?
(Later I had somewhat different fantasies about Russian women.)