The Mazowsze Exercise: Preparing for Nuclear War23 Apr 1963 |
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Description:
This document describes a Polish military exercise in April 1963 simulating war with weapons of mass destruction in order to estimate the destructiveness of such a conflict. Among other things, the study describes the nuclear counterstrikes of the Soviet Bloc and estimates the civilian casualties, loss of military material, and the destruction of Polish cities. The document also assumes that the Soviet missiles will be able to reach the US. Collection: A Cardboard Castle?
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Document Type:
Operational Plan Language of Original Document: Polish Number of Pages: 47 Cold War Period: 1960s |
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Document Source: Modern Records Archives (AAN), Warsaw Call Number: KC PZPR 5008 Document Companion: Document No. 22, a) First Published at: Doświadczenia i wnioski z ćwiczenia Mazowsze, pp. 22-35. |