artillerie:

https://archive.org/details/The280mmGunattheNevadaProvingGround1953

13 miles away. So hätte das auch bei uns ausgesehen...

15 kT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upshot-Knothole_Grable

Hier noch eine Analyse des "7 days to the Rhine" Szenarios aus dem vorigen Link:

https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/108642/warplan_dossier.pdf

Seite 19:
"Upon receiving special instructions from the Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces,
the Czechoslovak People’s Army will deploy to the Czechoslovak Front with the following tasks:
To be ready to start advancing toward Nuremberg, Stuttgart and Munich with part of forces
immediately after the nuclear strike. Nuclear strike against the troops of the enemy should be
targeted to the depth up to the line Würzburg, Erlangen, Regensburg, Landshut.
The immediate task is to defeat the main forces of the Central Group of the German Army in the
southern part of the FRG, in cooperation with the [Soviet] 8th Guards Army of the 1st Western
Front; by the end of the first day—reach the line Bayreuth, Regensburg, Passau; and by the end of
the second day—move to the line Höchstadt, Schwabach, Ingolstadt, Mühldorf, and by the fourth
day of the attack —reach the line Mosbach, Nürtingen, Memmingen, Kaufbeuren.
In the future, building upon the advance in the direction of Strasbourg, Epinal, Dijon, to finalize the
defeat of the enemy in the territory of the FRG, to force a crossing of the river Rhine, and on the
seventh or eighth day of the operation to take hold of the line Langres, Besançon.
Afterward develop the advance toward Lyon. "

"During the development of the operation, the troops of the Missile Forces and aviation must destroy
the approaching deep operative reserves, the newly discovered means of nuclear attack, and the
enemy aviation.
Altogether the operation will require the use of 131 nuclear missiles and nuclear bombs; specifically
96 missiles and 35 nuclear bombs. The first nuclear strike will use 41 missiles and nuclear bombs.
The immediate task will require using 29 missiles and nuclear bombs. The subsequent task could
use 49 missiles and nuclear bombs. 12 missiles and nuclear bombs should remain in the reserve
of the Front.
Building on the results of the first nuclear strike, the troops of the Front, in coordination with units of
the 1st Western Front must destroy the main group of troops of the 7th US Army and the 1st French
Army in cooperation with airborne assault troops, force the rivers Neckar and Rhine in crossing,
and defeat the advancing deep strategic reserves of the enemy in advancing battle, and by D7-8
take control of the areas of Langres, Besançon, and Epinal. "