Operation Dropshot

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Operation Dropshot
Part of the Cold War
Shot Apple-2, where the 723rd Tank Battalion participated in a tactical maneuver test as part of the nuclear test.
Date 1 January 1957 (projected). Objectives: To impose the national war objectives of the United States on the USSR and her allies. Location North Atlantic, and the Far East . Status Never carried out
Belligerents
United States and their allies	Soviet Union and their allies
Casualties and losses
none	none

Operation Dropshot was the

At the time, the US nuclear arsenal was limited in size, based mostly in the United States, and depended on bombers for delivery. Dropshot included mission profiles that would have used 300 nuclear bombs and 29,000 high-explosive bombs on 200 targets in 100 cities and towns to wipe out 85 percent of the Soviet Union's industrial potential at a single stroke. Between 75 and 100 of the 300 nuclear weapons were targeted to destroy Soviet combat aircraft on the ground.

The scenario was devised prior to the development of

• United States war plans (1945–1950)
• Plan Totality
• Operation Unthinkable
• Seven Days to the River Rhine
• Basic Encyclopedia

References

Sources

• Ross, Steven T. (1996). American War Plans, 1945-1950: Strategies for Defeating the Soviet Union. Frank Cass.
• "Dropshot - American Plan for War with the Soviet Union 1957". www.allworldwars.com. Retrieved 2020-10-01.

External links

• John J. Reilly, "World War III in 1957" via johnreilly.info, archived at Internet Archive, 2006
• George Hulett, "Cold War Warrior", Air Classics, 21 August 2004

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