Nuke Targets Elsewhere

[pmulcahy11b]

Has anyone done up a list of Nuke targets other than in Europe, Russia, and North America?

[Rainbow Six]

There's a listing for China compiled by Kota1342000 on page three of this thread:

http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.p...ighlight=China

There's also a lot of discussion about potential targets in Australia (including a couple of suggested target lists) on this thread:

http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.p...ight=Australia

At the risk of stating the obvious, the lists in both threads are speculative though - whilst specific locations may be mentioned in modules or Challenge articles, I'm not aware of any "official" listings ever having been published for anywhere except the UK, the USA, Canada, and the USSR.

[Matt Wiser]

RDF Sourcebook mentions a few mideast targets-Riyadh, for one.

[Olefin]

Put together a list for Africa - mostly refineries and oilfields and cities nearby

Will post it tonight

[Schone23666]

I'm guessing that most of the south/east coast of China in T2k is glowing like Chernobyl...

[Olefin]

From what I have been putting together on my Kenya module (which may actually be done soon) as to nuclear targets in Africa

Keep in mind that this isnt canon but is my best guess given canon attacks on refineries and oil facilities worldwide in neutral nations and giving an explanation as to why the Nigerian, Moroccan and Egyptian refineries arent there to support the US war effort, let alone Nigerian oil production. The miss at Capetown is to back up the events of the Spanish Main module, which has the Constitution stopping there to pick up electronic supplies and the attack on Casablanca comes from the lack of that port being mentioned in descriptions of the Gib attack from Med Cruise - i.e. that port being nuked takes away that base from the US and NATO.

The South African nukes and Soviet presence at Conakry are both extrapolated from the fact that in the original timeline the Cold War continued right into the 1990's. Thus the South Africans here did not destroy the small stockpile of nukes they built but instead continued producing them.

Basically its one short spasm of nuclear strikes - but the results leave the Kenyan refinery as about the only game in town for the US (as the South Africans need their one last surviving refinery for themselves) and devastates the entire continent in the process, either physically or economically.

So here goes

December 6, 1997

Africa had watched in horror as first China, then much of Europe and North America experienced nuclear warfare, seeing city after city die. They thought that they would be spared the horror of nuclear warfare, that the warring powers would not visit the same horror on them. Unfortunately, they were wrong.

Two Soviet nuclear ballistic submarines attack multiple targets throughout Africa, destroying refineries, oil fields and oil terminals in Nigeria, Morocco, Senegal, Egypt, Tunisia and South Africa.

In Egypt, Cairo, Suez and Alexandria are left in ruins by multiple strikes against the major refineries in those cities. While the Suez Canal is not directly targeted in the attack, the nuclear strikes on the refineries at Suez effectively block the southern end of the Canal with the wrecks of several merchant ships and tankers. Over three million Egyptians die in the attacks and another two million are severely wounded. In Nigeria every major refinery and oil terminal, in addition to her oil fields, are targeted by the Soviets, killing or wounding over two million Nigerians in minutes and covering much of the country in smoke from the burning oil fields and oil storage tanks.

The attacks on Morocco destroy both of its refineries along with the city of Mohammédia (Fédala). The city and harbor of Casablanca is hit by two 250kt warheads as well, destroying the city and sinking over half the Royal Moroccan Navy as well, denying the use of the port to NATO for the rest of the war.

Within days, as a result, the countries of Nigeria, Morocco and Egypt slide into anarchy.

The attack on Tunisia heavily damages their main field at El Borma but kills relatively few people as it is so remote. In South Africa the refineries at Durban and Sasolburg are destroyed, along with both cities, with huge loss of life in both cities.

The refineries and ports at Mombasa and Cape Town were on the target list as well but they are spared when the Soviet SSBN assigned to destroy them, in the act of launching the attack on those cities, suffers a massive malfunction. The hatch on the missile tube does not fully open and the missile strikes it, causing the missile to explode inside the submarine, utterly destroying it and its remaining missiles before they can be launched.

The attack on the Dakar Refinery in Senegal destroys the refinery and kills or wounds over 60,000 native Senegalese as well as 3500 French military and civilians who guard and work at the refinery. Casualties would have been much larger but the warhead fizzles and only detonates with 38kt instead of 250kt, thus sparing most of the city of Dakar from blast effects. Even though the attack was an airburst, considerable fallout does affect the city, adding another fifty thousand casualties eventually to the toll . The destruction of this refinery further complicates the oil supplies for the French, who have lost most of their refinery capacity in France already to Soviet nuclear and conventional attacks.

By days end South Africa officially becomes a co-belligerent with the US, declaring war on the Soviets, their Warsaw Pact allies, Mozambique, Angola and Cuba. South Africa mobilizes quickly to re-establish public order, calling up reservists across the country. In Johannesburg, panicked riots break out as survivors from the nuclear strike at Sasolburg stream into the city.

December 9, 1997

Taking advantage of the chaos gripping Egypt, Libya launches an attack by 10 Tu-22 bombers against the Aswan Dam, hitting it repeatedly until the center of the dam collapses, sending a wall of water down the Nile, drowning tens of thousands and displacing thousands more. The attack destroys most of what electrical power was still being generated in Egypt after the nuclear attacks. Libyan tank formations cross into Egypt and head east against pitiful resistance.

December 10, 1997

Due to the disruptions in both the US and South Africa it takes several days to retaliate for the Soviet attacks in Africa. When the attacks come they devastate large areas of Africa.

Conakry, the capital of Guinea, is devastated by three 250kt warheads that destroy the extensive Soviet air and naval bases there. Nearly half a million people die in the attack which annihilates most of the remaining Soviet forces in Africa as well as the government and most of the military of the Republic of Guinea.

US nuclear attacks destroy refineries, oil fields and ports in pro-Soviet Algeria and Libya, causing over four million casualties in strikes against both nations and cutting off all oil production. What is left of the Soviet Med fleet that is in port in the two countries is destroyed as well.

The Libyan armored formations that crossed the Egyptian border are devastated by three tactical nuclear warheads, knocking out over 80 percent of the tanks and APC’s and sending the survivors fleeing back into Libya.

The cities of Tripoli, Skikda (Philippeville) Algiers, Arzew, Ra's Lanuf, Zawiya, Benghazi and Oran have all been targeted in the attacks. The attacks on Algeria incense the French government and many of its people, who see Algeria as still being part of France.

In the Indian Ocean, a single TLAM-A 100kt nuclear cruise missile detonates over the harbor and capital of Victoria, destroying the city and killing over 20,000 people. Ten Soviet merchantmen and six Indian Ocean Squadron auxiliaries who were “interned” in the port are sunk and the 300 man Soviet Marine detachment there is wiped out.

South Africa, in coordination with the US strikes, launches most of its small nuclear arsenal in reprisal against the capital cities of the Soviet client states of Angola and Mozambique. The strikes against Mozambique and Angola send both countries into chaos as their governments are destroyed along with their capital cities.

Three South African 38kt weapons delivered by missiles detonate over Angola’s capital of Luanda, destroying most of the city including the refinery there. The third warhead detonates almost directly over the airbase that harbors most of the Cuban air power in Africa, destroying almost 75 percent of their fighters and attack aircraft in Africa in seconds.

In Mozambique, the capital of Maputo is hit with another four South African weapons, this time being 38kt nuclear bombs delivered by Canberra and Buccaneer bombers, two over the city and two over the harbor, sinking dozens of Soviet and Warsaw Pact merchants interned there as well as three Soviet nuclear attack subs and their resupply ships that were using the port, clandestinely, as a supply base. In a huge air battle two dozen Mozambique Air Force MiG’s are shot down by escorting South African fighters, who lose seven fighters of their own, as well as one of the Canberra bombers, lost on the way out after the strike.

[Olefin]

Nuclear strikes against Venezuela are mentioned in the canon - the most likely targets would be the following

Punto Fijo, Venezuela

Punto Cardon, Venezuela

Bajo Grande Refinery - south of Maracaibo

Curacao - Isla Refinery in Willemstad harbor - which serves as a refinery for Venezuelan oil - also taking out the Netherlands naval base at Curacao and the Marines barracks there as well

The nearby refinery at Aruba, while also a likely target, apparently is overlooked - as is stated in Gateway to the Spanish Main - i.e. it says the pirates target would be the oil rich island of Aruba - the only oil on that island would be at the refinery and its storage tanks - if it was nuked there wouldnt be any more oil there to obtain

[Olefin]

A question - has anyone ever put together a list of likely nuclear targets in France that the Russians hit - according to the game they did get hit but either didnt retaliate or did retaliate but then decided tit for tat was enough and didnt join the war

You have to figure at the least the Petit-Couronne plant outside Rouen and the Donges refineries at Saint-Nazaire would have been definite targets for nukes

[raketenjagdpanzer]

le Harvre would almost certainly get hit; first an airburst to pin-down, then probably a spread of ground bursts, something in the 100kt range from an SS-18 or two, to put a major harbor out of commission.