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Grim Blueprints
Snapshots from the U.S. Playbook for Nuclear Attack

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Graph showing how casualties from nuclear attack on Russia would vary month to month according to prevailing wind patterns.

The number of people injured or killed by a nuclear attack would also vary widely depending on the month; the maximum number of casualties from an attack on Russian ICBM silos would occur in June, when the prevailing winds would blow fallout from an important counterforce-attack target, the Kozelsk missile field, directly toward Moscow.

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