WP Targets in the UK and Ireland (1962: The Apocalypse)

Here is a list of all the known Warsaw Pact targets in the 1962 atomic atack on the UK.

West Midlands

 * 1) Birmingham- 1x 10kt, 2x 200kt and 3x 100kt.
 * 2) Dudley- 1x 1kt and 1 x 10kt.
 * 3) Coventry- 2x 100kt.
 * 4) Coventry airport – 1x 1kt.
 * 5) West Midlands Airport- 3x 1kt.
 * 6) Smethwick- 1x 10kt.
 * 7) Hampstead, Birmingham- 1x 10kt
 * 8) Old Hill, Birmingham- 1x 10kt and 1x100kt.
 * 9) Merry Hill, Birmingham - 2x 10kt and 1x 100kt.
 * 10) Cradley Heath- 3x 10kt and 1x 100kt.
 * 11) Wolverhampton 1x 10kt, 2x 1kt.

Warwickshire

 * 1) Kinteton army depot- 2x 1kt.
 * 2) Kenilworth Castel- 1x 1kt
 * 3) Warwickshire’s Baddersley Colliery 1x 1kt (it did not explode after it buried it’s self at the bottom of the mine shaft).

Oxfordshire

 * 1) RAF Bicester 1x 1kt.
 * 2) BOD Bicester - 1x 10kt.
 * 3) RAF Brise Norton- 1x 10kt,
 * 4) Chipping Warden airfield- 1x 1kt
 * 5) Whitney- 3x 10kt.
 * 6) Banbury- 3x 1kt.

Gloustershire

 * 1) GCHQ Cheltenham- 2 x 1k
 * 2) Cheltenham race course- 1 x 1kt
 * 3) Ashchurch army base- 1 x 1kt

Northamptonshire

 * 1) RAF Croughton- 1x 1kt.
 * 2) RAF Longsparrow- 1x 1kt.

Shrophire

 * 1) RAF Cossford- 2 x 1kt

Angelsea

 * 1) RAF Valley- 1 x 10kt
 * 2) RAF Rhouse- 1 x 10kt

Suffolk

 * 1) RAF Lakenheth- 1x 10kt
 * 2) RAF Woodbridge- 1x 10kt

Berkshire

 * 1) RAF Greenham Common- 2x 100kt and 1 x 50kt.
 * 2) Sandherst army officer accadamy- 1 x 10kt.
 * 3) Aldermaston Atomic resrch centre- 1 x 10kt.
 * 4) Burghfield ordinance factory- 1x 10kt.

Hampshire

 * 1) Andover- 1 x 10kt
 * 2) Southampton- 1 x 100kt
 * 3) Southampton docks- 1 x 10kt
 * 4) Portsmouth docks- 1 x 10kt
 * 5) Gosport docks- 1 x 10kt

Buckinghamshire

 * 1) Buckingham- 1x 1kt.

South Glamorgan

 * 1) Cardiff 2 x 10kt and 1 x 20 kt
 * 2) Cardiff docks 1 x 10kt
 * 3) Swansea 2x 15kt
 * 4) Swansea docks 1 x 10kt
 * 5) Newport, Gwent - 10KT
 * 6) Cardiff Airport – 1kt
 * 7) Swansea Airport – 1kt
 * 8) MOD St Athan – 1kt
 * 9) Rhymney Valley – 1kt (It buried itself in a recently abandoned coal mine and didn’t explode.)
 * 10) The Uskmouth power stations - 1kt
 * 11) The Woodham Brothers scrapyard, Barry Island -1kt (It did not explode and buried itself 8 feet into the ground).

Bristol

 * 1) Bristol- 1x 100kt
 * 2) Bristol docks- 1 x 50 kt
 * 3) Avonmouth -1 x 10kt
 * 4) Avonmouth oil refinery- 1x 10kt
 * 5) Avonmouth docks- 1x 10kt

South Riding of Yorkshire

 * 1) Sheffield- 2x 100kt
 * 2) Doncater-1x 50kt
 * 3) Barnsley-1x 50kt
 * 4) Leeds- 2x 100kt
 * 5) Bradford- 2x 100kt

East Riding of Yorkshire

 * 1) Hull- 1x 50kt
 * 2) Hull docks- 1x 10kt

North Riding of Yorkshire

 * 1) US radar early warning canter RAF Filingdales- 2x 10kt

Derbyshire

 * 1) Derby- 1x 10kt

Cheshire

 * 1) Crew- 1x 1kt
 * 2) Elsmere Port- 1 x 10kt
 * 3) Stockport- 1 x 10kt
 * 4) Birkenhead- 1 x 100kt

Lancashire

 * 1) Manchester- 3 x 100 kt
 * 2) Liverpool - 2 x 100 kt
 * 3) Liverpool Docks- 1x 50kt

Lanarkshire

 * 1) Glasgow- 2 x 10kt
 * 2) Glasgow docks- 2x 10kt
 * 3) Motherwell- 1x 1kt
 * 4) Wishaw- 1x 1kt

Devon

 * 1) Plymouth 1x 10kt
 * 2) Plymouth Docks 2x 10kt
 * 3) Exier docks 1x 10kt

London County Council

 * 1) Westminster- 1 x 100kt
 * 2) Holbourn- 1 x 100kt
 * 3) St Katharine Docks- 1 x 100kt
 * 4) Shadwell Basin- 1 x 100kt
 * 5) Canary Wharf- 1 x 100kt
 * 6) West India Docks- 1 x 50kt
 * 7) Heron Quays- 1 x 50kt
 * 8) Surrey Quays.

The City of London

 * 1) The London Stock Exchange- 1 x 100kt.

Middelsex

 * 1) Willsden railway junction- 1 x 1kt.
 * 2) Heathrow airport- 1 x 10kt.
 * 3) RAF Northolt- 1 x 10kt.