| Comment | As far as I know (was quite nerdy about cold war stuff in my younger days), there's different grades of plans on both sides, depending on the scale of the conflict. A typical cold war era target list for a major exchange included not just weapons stockpiles and naval bases, but airports, power stations, centres of infrastructure, major hospitals, centres of commerce and/or government, and supply networks (rail yards, storage depots etc.).
It wasn't ever really that big populations were directly targeted, just that these types of things (storage depots, engineering works, hospitals, airports, government headquarters) tend to be in and around cities. Because of this, in a full scale war Glasgow (just like Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, many other cities too) would be targeted by a couple of warheads, each aiming for a specific point of infrastructure. |
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