A declassified targeting study outlined nuclear strikes on over twelve hundred cities.

Evidence

Finally, in October 2014, the Air Force released to Burr a nuclear targeting study from 1956 that included a computer printout of several hundred pages from Curtis Lemay’s Strategic Air Command. … The printout, although heavily redacted, listed more than twelve hundred Soviet bloc cities slated for “systematic destruction,” including Bucharest, Budapest, Dresden, East Berlin, Hanoi, Harbin, Nanking, Prague, Pyongyang, Riga, and Shanghai. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 292

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 292