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During the Cold War, the West and the Soviet Union had repeatedly been on the brink of nuclear war and had targeted tens of thousands of nuclear warheads. As this number increased, so did the target list: from strategic enemy objects, such as headquarters, major military bases, civilian industrial centers, or smaller individual objects, such as radars.
It is no secret that there were also nuclear targets in Lithuania: during the Cold War, NATO did not see a Soviet-occupied country here, but a territory where hundreds of Soviet nuclear weapons were deployed from the mid-1960s until regaining the independence. heads, bombs, artillery shells and their delivery systems: ballistics, cruise missiles, planes, cannons stationed at secret military bases, airports, where US nuclear weapons were targeted.
But there were more objects on the target list, not just military: they were both airports and industrial centers, in other words cities like Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Siauliai, even Palanga, Marijampole, Alytus, Radviliskis and Kedainiai, Varena. In the event of a nuclear war, the 160 kiloton Mark 6 bombs would have detonated above them.
And this is just one of the lists that were drawn up in 1956 in the United States and made public in 2015. The British, who were prepared to face a backlash against the Soviet Union, also had their own lists. The latter, in turn, also saw a preemptive blow to the West. There were thousands of ordinary officers and soldiers on both sides on whose actions the orders of the decision-makers depended or would be carried out.
Among those soldiers was Viktoras Voroncovas, a Russian who chose Lithuania as his homeland a few years ago. His public recollection of his service in the Soviet Army did not reveal any more known details about what the Soviet Army was preparing in strategic missile forces.
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