The Air Force targeted seventy Russian cities for destruction during the Cold War.

Evidence

The Air Force had targeted seventy Russian cities for destruction, Brugioni explained; Air Research’s job was to gain information about each area in order to, as he put it, “create a target chart for the Strategic Air Command to bomb the place.” — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 281

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 281