The purpose of this page is to offer a detailed report of the events of September 25/26, 1983, which will forever be known as Doomsday to the world.
For primary-documentary information, Associated Press reports from that infamous day are available. The times on the chart below represent the time the missiles were launched by the USSR and not the time the missiles first struck their targets, so not to create confusion.
WARNING!: THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE. DO NOT ASSUME A LOCATION WAS MISSED JUST BECAUSE IT IS NOT HERE. DO YOUR RESEARCH!
Time of Doomsday[]
Local time of the start of Doomsday |
Pago Pago | Honolulu, Papeete | Anchorage | Vancouver, Los Angeles, Tijuana | Edmonton, Denver, Hermosillo | Winnipeg, Chicago, Dallas, Mexico City, Tegucigalpa | Toronto, New York, Washington, Havana, Panama City, Bogotá, Lima | Halifax, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Manaus, La Paz, Santiago | Nuuk, São Paulo, Buenos Aires | Ponta Delgada | London, Lisbon, Algiers, Dakar, Accra | Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, Rome, Tunis, Lagos, Kinshasa | Helsinki, Bucharest, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Cairo, Lusaka, Cape Town | Kiev, Leningrad, Moscow, Baghdad, Riyadh, Nairobi | Volgograd, Baku, Muscat | Sverdlovsk, Samarkand, Karachi | Omsk, Alma-Ata, Dhaka | Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Hanoi, Jakarta | Irkutsk, Chengdu, Beijing, Manila, Perth | Yakutsk, Tokyo, Seoul | Vladivostok, Sydney | Magadan, Noumea | Petropavlovsk, Auckland | ||
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Strikes in North America[]
Canada[]
- Calgary, AB
- CFB Gagetown, in New Brunswick
- CFB North Bay (North Bay, ON)
- Edmonton, AB (Strikes over both the city itself and CFB Edmonton)
- Halifax, NS
- Hamilton, ON
- Montreal, QC (PQ) (Strikes over Laval and Montreal itself)
- Ottawa (Federal Capital)
- Québec City, QC (PQ)
- Regina, SK
- Toronto, ON (Strikes over the downtown core and the suburb of Mississauga)
- Vancouver, BC (Strikes over the suburb of New Westminster and the city itself)
- Windsor, ON (Destroyed by strikes in and around Detroit)
- Winnipeg, MB
Cuba[]
- Havana
- Santiago de Cuba
Panama[]
- Howard Air Force Base (Panama City)
Puerto Rico[]
- Roosevelt Roads Naval Station (Ceiba)
Greenland[]
- Thule Air Base/Pituffik Airport
United States[]
See also: Doomsday by U.S. state and the 2009 WCRB report on the southern United States
- Aberdeen Proving Grounds (Aberdeen, MD)
- Abilene, TX
- Albany, NY
- Albuquerque, NM
- Alexandria, LA
- Alexandria, VA
- Anaheim, CA
- Annapolis, MD
- Andrews Air Force Base (Camp Springs, MD)
- Atlanta, GA
- Arlington, VA
- Augusta, GA
- Aurora, IL
- Austin, TX
- Baltimore, MD
- Bakersfield, CA
- Barstow, CA
- Bath Iron Works (Bath, ME)
- Baton Rouge, LA
- Beale Air Force Base (Marysville, CA)
- Bethlehem, PA
- Biloxi, MS
- Birmingham, AL
- Blytheville, AR
- Boise, ID
- Boston, MA
- Boulder, CO
- Bremerton, WA
- Briggsdale,
- Brownsville, TX
- Buckley AFB (Aurora, CO)
- Buffalo, NY
- Burlington, IA
- Camp David, MD
- Camp Lejuene (Jacksonville, NC)
- Camp Roberts (San Miguel, CA)
- Cannon AFB (Clovis, NM)
- Cedar Rapids, IA
- Chanute Air Force Base (Rantoul, IL)
- Charleston, SC
- Charlotte, NC
- Chattanooga, TN
- Chicago, IL
- Cincinnati, OH
- Cleveland, OH
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Columbia, SC
- Columbus AFB (Columbus, MS)
- Columbus, GA
- Columbus, OH
- Concord, CA
- Corpus Christi, TX
- Crane Army Ammunition Activity (Crane, IN)
- Custer, OK
- Dallas, TX
- Davis-Monahan AFB (near Tuscon, AZ), Titan II missile field
- Decatur, IL
- Del Rio, TX
- Denver, CO
- Des Moines, IA
- Des Plaines, IL
- Detroit, MI
- Dover Air Force Base (Dover, DE)
- Duluth, MN (and nearby Superior, WI)
- Edison, NJ
- Edwards Air Force Base (North Edwards, CA)
- El Paso, TX
- Elizabeth, NJ
- Ellsworth Air Force Base (Rapid City, SD)
- Elmendorf Air Force Base (Anchorage, AK)
- Eloy, AZ
- Enid, OK
- Erie, PA
- Fairbanks, AK
- Fairchild Air Force Base (Spokane Co., WA)
- Fayetteville, NC
- Flagstaff, AZ
- Flint, MI
- Fort Benning, GA
- Fort Carson, CO
- Fort Detrick (Frederick, MD)
- Fort Dix-McGuire Air Force Base (Burlington Co., NJ)
- Fort Drum, NY
- Fort George Meade (Odenton, MD)
- Fort Fisher, NC
- Fort Huachuca (Sierra Vista, AZ)
- Fort Hunter Liggett, CA
- Fort Irwin, CA
- Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Fort Leonard Wood (Pulaski Co., MO)
- Fort McCoy, WI
- Fort Monmouth (Monmouth Co., NJ)
- Fort Morgan, CO
- Fort Ord, CA
- Fort Polk (Leesville, LA)
- Fort Sill (Lawton, OK)
- Fort Smith, AR
- Fort Stewart, GA
- Fort Wayne, IN
- Fort Worth, TX
- Francis E. Warren Air Force Base (Cheyenne, WY)
- Franklin Township, NJ
- Fresno, CA
- Galveston, TX
- Gary, IN
- Goldsboro, NC
- Griffis AFB (Rome and Utica, NY)
- Grissom Air Force Base (Kokomo, IN)
- Groom Lake AFB (Area 51, Groom Lake, NV)
- Grand Forks AFB (Grand Forks, ND) 321st Strategic Missile Wing, Minuteman III missile field
- Grand Rapids, MI
- Grover,
- Gulfport, MS
- Hackensack, NJ
- Harrisburg, PA
- Hartford, CT
- Havelock, NC
- Hawthorne Army Depot (Hawthorne, NV)
- Hempstead, NY
- Hollomon AFB (Alamogordo, NM)
- Homestead AFB (Homestead, FL)
- Honolulu, HI
- Houston, TX
- Huntsville, AL
- Indiana Army Ammunition Plant (Charlestown, IN)
- Indianapolis, IN
- Jackson, MS
- Jacksonville, FL
- Jefferson City, MO
- Jersey City, NJ
- Joliet, IL
- K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base (Marquette, MI)
- Kansas City, MO
- Kansas City, KS
- Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral, FL)
- Key West NAS, FL
- Killeen, TX
- Kingsport, TN
- Kirtland AFB, NM
- Lake Charles, LA
- Lakehurst Naval Air Station (Lakehurst, NJ)
- Lancaster-Palmdale, CA
- Langley Air Force Base (Hampton, VA)
- Las Cruces, NM
- Las Vegas Valley, NV (including Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Henderson)
- Little Rock AFB (Jacksonville, AR)
- Louisville, KY (includes the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant between nearby Charlestown, IN and Jeffersonville, IN)
- Longview, TX
- Loring Air Force Base (Limestone, ME)
- Los Angeles, CA
- Lubbock, TX
- Luke AFB (Sun City, AZ)
- Malmstrom Air Force Base (Cascade Co., MT)
- Mammoth, AZ
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Vallejo, CA)
- Marietta, GA
- McLean, VA
- Memphis, TN
- Merced, CA
- Mercury, NV
- Miami, FL
- Michigan City, IN
- Middletown Township, NJ
- Milwaukee, WI
- Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
- Minot Air Force Base (Minot, ND), 91st Strategic Missile Wing, Minuteman III missile field
- Mobile, AL
- Modesto, CA
- Moffett Naval Air Station (Mountain View, CA)
- Mojave, CA
- Montgomery, AL
- Morristown, NJ
- Myrtle Beach, SC
- Nashville, TN
- Naval Air Station Brunswick (Brunswick, ME)
- Naval Air Station Glenview (Glenview, IL)
- Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove (Willow Grove, PA)
- Naval Air Station Lemoore (Lemoore, CA)
- Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (China Lake, CA)
- Naval Station Great Lakes (North Chicago, IL)
- Naval Submarine Base Bangor (Bangor Base, WA)
- Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay (Camden County, GA)
- Newark, NJ
- New City, NY
- New London, CT
- New Orleans, LA
- New York City (include all five boroughs, all of Long Island except for an area from Hampton Bays up to Hither Woods and the Yonkers/Mount Vernon/New Rochelle/Pelham/White Plains area)
- Newport, RI
- Nogales, AZ
- Norfolk-Newport News, VA
- Norton Air Force Base (San Bernardino, CA)
- Oakland, CA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN)
- Oceana Naval Air Station (Virginia Beach, VA)
- Offutt Air Force Base (Omaha, NE and Council Bluffs, IA)
- Oklahoma City, OK
- Omaha, NE
- Orlando, FL
- Pacific Missile Range, Kauai, HI
- Panama City, FL
- Parris Island, SC
- Paterson, NJ
- Peoria, IL
- Perth Amboy, NJ
- Phenix City, AL
- Philadelphia, PA
- Phoenix, AZ metropolitan area
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Plattsburgh Air Force Base (Plattsburgh, NY and Burlington, VT)
- Portland, ME
- Portland, OR
- Portsmouth, NH
- Providence, RI
- Pueblo, CO
- Raleigh, NC
- Raven Rock Mountain Complex
- Richmond, KY
- Richmond, VA
- Rochester, NY
- Rockford, IL
- Russellville, AR
- Sacramento, CA
- Saint Louis, MO (East St. Louis destroyed as well)
- Salinas, CA
- Salt Lake City, UT
- San Angelo, TX
- San Antonio, TX
- San Bernardino, CA
- San Diego, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- San Jose, CA
- San Luis Obispo, CA
- Santa Fe, NM
- Savannah, GA
- Schenectady, NY
- Scott Air Force Base (Belleville, IL)
- Scottsdale, AZ
- Scranton, PA
- Seattle, WA
- Sedgewick, CO
- Seneca Army Depot, NY
- Shreveport, LA
- Springfield, IL
- Springfield, MA
- Sterling, CO
- Stewart International Airport (Newburgh, NY)
- Stockton, CA
- Syracuse, NY
- Tacoma, WA
- Tallahasse, FL
- Tampa Bay, FL
- Texarkana, AR-TX
- Topeka, KS
- Travis Air Force Base (Fairfield, CA)
- Trenton, NJ
- Tucson, AZ
- Tulsa, OK
- Universal City, TX
- Vandenberg Air Force Base (Santa Maria, CA)
- Vernon, NJ
- Waco, TX
- Warner-Robins SAC (near Macon, GA)
- Washington D.C.
- Walker AFB, (Roswell, NM)
- Watervliet Arsenal (Watervliet and Troy, NY)
- Wheeling, WV
- Whiteman Air Force Base, (near Warrensburg, MO) 351st Strategic Missile Wing, Minuteman II missile field)
- White Plains, NY
- Wichita, KS (McConnell AFB)
- Wichita Falls, TX
- Wilkes-Barre, PA
- Yuma, AZ
Strikes in Europe[]
Albania[]
- Tirana
Austria[]
- Vienna
Belgium[]
- Antwerp
- Brussels (NATO Headquarters)
- Kleine-Brogel
- Mons
- Florennes Base
Bulgaria[]
- Burgas
- Harmanli Site
- Haskovo Site
- Plovdiv Site
- Rousse
- Shabla Site
- Sofia
- Varna
- Yambol
- Kavarna Site
- Karnobat Site
Cyprus[]
- Akrotiri
- Dhekelia
Czechoslovakia[]
- Bratislava
- Bruntal Site
- Brno
- Ceske Budejovice Site
- Prague
- Pilsen Site
- Ostrava
- Topoľčany Site
- Zvolen Site
Denmark[]
- Copenhagen
East Germany[]
- Altenburg
- Chemnitz
- Damgarten
- Dranske
- Dresden
- Fürstenberg/Havel
- Groß Dölln
- Halle
- Leipzig
- Magdeburg
- Parchim
- Peenemünde
- Rechlin
- Rostock
- Strausberg
- Wünsdorf
- Zerbst
- Zwickau
- Zossen
France[]
- Avord Air Force Base
- Belfort Site
- Brest Naval Base
- Cambrai Site
- Chateaudun Site
- Istres Naval Base
- Laon-Couvron Base
- Luxeuil Air Force Base
- Oberhoffen Site
- Mont-de-Marsan Air Force Base
- Reilhanette Site
- Rustrel Site
- St. Dizier Air Force Base
- Suippes Site
- Toulon Naval Base
- Bordeaux
- Le Havre
- Lyon
- Marseille
- Metz
- Orleàns
- Paris
- Strasbourg
Greece[]
- Athens
- Larissa
- Patra
- Thessaloniki
Hungary[]
- Berettyóújfalu Air Force Base
- Budapest
- Esztergom Site
- Kiskunlacháza Air Force Base
- Kecskemét Site and Air Force Base
- Kunmadaras Air Force Base
- Miskolc
- Pécs
- Tatabanya Site
- Tököl Air Force Base
- Szekesfehervar Site
- Szeged
- Szolnok
- Szombathely Site
- Veszprém Site
Iceland[]
- Hofn
Italy[]
- Aviano Air Force Base
- Back Yard NATO Centre (Secondary bunker linked to West Star)
- Camp Ederle (U.S. SETAF HQ)
- Cervia Air Force Base
- Comiso Air Force Base
- Decimonannu Air Force Base
- Ghedi Air Force Base
- Gioia del Colle Air Force Base
- Istrana Air Force Base
- La Spezia Naval Base (La Spezia, Tuscany)
- Modena
- Milan
- Naples
- Padua Airport (Home to the 1st Air Brigade "Guided Interceptors")
- Portoguaro (Home to the 3rd Missile Brigade "Aquileia")
- Rimini Airport (Rimini, Romagna)
- Rome
- Santo Stefano Naval Base (Home to US nuclear submarines)
- Site Algol
- Site Pluto (Damages over the town of Longare too)
- Taranto (Both for it's naval base and industrial plant)
- Turin
- U.S. NSA Naples (Home of the U.S. Naval Forces Europe and the U.S. Sixth Fleet)
- Verona
- Vicenza
- Villafranca Air Force Base
- West Star NATO Command Centre (Main command bunker for Italian and NATO Allied Land Forces Southern Europe forces)
Netherlands[]
- Amsterdam
- Brunssum
- The Hague (Den Haag)
- Eindhoven
- Rotterdam
- Soesterberg
- Uden
- Woensdrecht Site
Norway[]
- Bergen
- Oslo
Poland[]
- Bydgoszcz
- Gdańsk/Danzig
- Krakow
- Lublin
- Szczecin
- Warsaw
- Wrocław
Portugal[]
- Lisbon
- Porto
- Ota Air Base
- Sintra Air Base
Romania[]
- Brasov
- Bucharest
- Constanţa
- Galati
- Giurgiu (destroyed in the blast on the Bulgarian city of Rousse)
- Ploiesti
Soviet Union[]
- Afrikanda, RU
- Alakurtti, RU
- Ämari, ES
- Andreapol, RU
- Arkhangelsk, RU
- Astrakhan, RU
- Balaklava, UK
- Balakovo, RU
- Baltiysk, RU
- Baku, AZ (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Baranovichi, BZ
- Batumi, GE
- Belaya Tserkov, UK
- Belushya Guba, RU
- Berdychiv, UK
- Berezniki, RU
- Bezhetsk, RU
- Borisoglebsk, RU
- Brest, BY
- Brody, UK
- Bryansk, RU
- Cheboksary, RU
- Cherepovets, RU
- Cherkasy, UK
- Chernigov, UK
- Chernogolovka, RU
- Chernyakhovsk, RU
- Chişinău, MO
- Chuhuiv, UK
- Daugavpils, LV
- Derazhnia, UK
- Dombarovskiy Rocket Base, RU (R-36MUTTKh missile field)
- Dnipropetrovsk, UK (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Dno, RU
- Donetsk, UK (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Dubna, RU
- Dubno, UK
- Dudinka, RU
- Dzerzhinsk, RU
- Elektrostal, RU
- Engels, RU
- Fryazino, RU
- Ganja, AZ
- Gdov, RU
- Gomel, BY
- Gorki, RU
- Grozny, RU
- Gudauta, GE
- Gvardeysk, RU
- Hrodna, BY
- Ivanovo, RU
- Ivano-Frankivsk, UK
- Izhevsk/Ustinov, RU
- Izmail, UK
- Jēkabpils, LV
- Jonava, LT
- Kaliningrad, RU
- Kaluga, RU
- Kamensk-Uralsky, RU
- Kamyshin, RU
- Kapustin Yar, RU
- Kaunas, LT
- Kazan, RU
- Kėdainiai, LT
- Kharkiv/Kharkov, UK (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Kiev, UK (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Kilpyavr, RU
- Kirov/Vyatka/Khlynov, RU
- Kirovohrad, UK
- Kizlyar, RU
- Khmelnytskyi, UK
- Klaipėda, LT
- Kolomyia, UK
- Komunarsk, UK
- Korolyov, RU
- Kostroma, RU
- Kotlas, RU
- Kozelsk, RU
- Kramatorsk, UK
- Krasnoznamensk, RU
- Kremenchuk, UK
- Kronstadt, RU
- Krymsk, RU
- Kubinka, RU
- Kuntsevo, RU
- Kursk, RU
- Kuybyshev, RU
- Lakhta, RU
- Lebyazhye, RU
- Leningrad/St. Petersburg, RU (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Lesnoy, RU
- Lida, BY
- Liepāja, LV
- Lipetsk, RU
- Lutsk, UK
- Lviv, UK
- Lyubertsy, RU
- Magnitogorsk, RU
- Makhachkala, RU
- Mariupol, UK
- Marneuli, GE
- Melitopol, UK
- Metsamor, AR
- Migalovo, RU
- Millerovo, RU
- Minsk, BY (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Mirny, RU
- Molodyozhny, RU
- Morozovsk, RU
- Morshansk, RU
- Moscow, RU (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Mount Yamantau/Mezhgorye, RU (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Mozdok, RU
- Mukachevo, UK
- Murmansk, RU
- Myrhorod, UK
- Mytishchi, RU
- Naberezhnye Chelny, RU
- Nalchik, RU
- Nizhny Novgorod, RU
- Nizhny Tagil, RU
- Nizhyn, UK
- Novofedorivka, UK
- Novohrad-Volynskyi, UK
- Novorossiysk, RU
- Novosibirsk, RU
- Novouralsk, RU
- Obninsk, RU
- Odessa, UK
- Olenya, RU
- Omutninsk, RU
- Orel, RU
- Orenburg, RU
- Orsha, BY
- Ostrov, RU
- Ovruch, UK
- Paldiski, ES
- Pavlohrad, UK
- Pechenga, RU
- Penza, RU
- Perm, Russian SFSR
- Pervomaisk Rocket Base, UKR SSR (Strategic Rocket Forces, 46th Rocket Division, UR-100UTTKH missile field)
- Petrozavodsk, RSFR
- Podolsk, RSFR
- Poltava, UKR SSR
- Polyarny, RSFR
- Poti, GE SSR
- Prylukiy Airbase, UKR SSR (Long Range Aviation, 9th Guards Long-Range Regiment, TU-16)
- Pskov, RU
- Pushchino, RU
- Reutov, RU
- Ribnita, MO
- Riga, LV
- Rivne, UK
- Rostov-on-Don, RU (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Ryazan, RU
- Rybinsk, RU
- Salavat, RU
- Saransk, RU
- Saratov, RU
- Sarov, RU
- Serpukhov, RU
- Sevastapol, UK (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Severodvinsk, RU
- Severodonetsk, UK
- Severomorsk, RU (HQ of Northern Fleet, ballistic missile submarine force)
- Shakhty, RU
- Shatalovo, RU
- Shaykovka, RU
- Shikhany, RU
- Šiauliai, LT
- Sillamäe, ES
- Simferopol, UK
- Skalisty/Gadzhiyevo, RU
- Smila, UK
- Smolensk, RU
- Snezhinsk, RU
- Sochi, RU
- Soltsy, RU
- Star City, RU
- Staraya Russa, RU
- Stavropol, RU
- Sterlitamak, RU
- Stryi, UK
- Sukhumi, GE
- Sumy, UK
- Sverdlovsk, UK
- Syktyvkar, SK
- Syzran, RU
- Taganrog, RU (Also caused Tsunamis in the Sea of Asov)
- Tallin, ES
- Tambov, RU
- Tartu, ES
- Tatischevo, RU
- Tbilisi, GE
- Ternopil, UK
- Teykovo, RU
- Tiraspol, MO
- Tolyatti, RU
- Totskoye, RU
- Tuapse, RU
- Tukums, LV
- Tula, RU
- Tver/Kalinin, RU
- Ufa, RU
- Ulyanovsk, RU
- Uzyn, UK
- Uzhhorod, UK
- V'yuzhnyy/Snezhnogorsk, RU
- Valmiera, LV
- Vasylkiv, UK
- Vidyayevo, RU
- Vilnius, LT
- Vinnytsia, UK
- Vladimir, RU
- Vladivostok, RU
- Vlasikha, RU
- Vologda, RU
- Volgorgrad, RU
- Volodymyr-Volynskyi, UK
- Volzhsky, RU
- Voronezh, RU
- Voskhod, RU
- Vyazma, RU
- Yaroslavl, RU
- Yekaterinburg, RU
- Yerevan, AR
- Yoshkar-Ola, RU
- Zaporizhia, UK
- Zaozyorsk, RU
- Zarechny, RU
- Zelenograd, RU
- Zhytomyr, UK
- Zlatoust, RU
- Znamensk, RU
Spain[]
- Barcelona
- Bilbao
- Madrid-Torrejón
- Moron
- Rota
- Valencia
- Zaragoza
Turkey[]
- Adana
- Alanya
- Ankara
- Bursa
- Edirne
- Erzurum
- Istanbul
- Izmir
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[]
- See main article: Doomsday in the United Kingdom or Former UK
There were three waves of nuclear detonations across the UK.
The first wave of strategic nuclear weapons detonated across the UK military bases between 1:52 AM and 1:58 AM. One megaton detonations occurred over Portsmouth, Southampton and Plymouth (probably due to their large military bases) as well as two one megatonne detonations over the City of London.
Less than ten minutes later a second wave hit the 15 largest population centres across the UK between 2:02 AM and 2:11 AM. These were London (seven separate blasts), Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester, Leicester, Coventry, Kingston upon Hull (airblast over the river Humber to the south of the city), Bradford, Cardiff, and Belfast.
The third and final wave hit the remaining population centres and re-hit some of the population centres hit in the first and second waves. These hit between 2:22 AM and 2:36 AM.
In total between 65 and 70 large (100 kilotonne+), nuclear weapons fall on major UK cities, and around 70 tactical nuclear weapons (10 kilotonnes) fell on military bases throughout the UK on Doomsday. Nuclear blast totals in the UK exceeded 15 megatonnes.
Although details of the destruction of London are sketchy, it is believed that at least 12 nuclear detonations occurred in the Greater London area, two detonation in first wave (over the City of London), seven detonations in second wave, three more in the third wave. Pilots flying over it have described it as "craters, rubble, and glass". The Greater London area is currently off limits to all but official scientific and military personnel. A thorough expedition of the wasteland would be completed in 2015.
Several major cities in the United Kingdom avoided complete destruction, due to malfunctioning missiles. These included:
- Middlesbrough - one 100 KT bomb discovered unexploded in 2010.
- Luton - (100 KT) hit Barkley-le-Clay ten miles to the north.
- RAF Woodbridge - The missile presumed to have been intended for the base was never discovered.
West Germany[]
Most of the targets struck in West Germany were military installations and major cities. It is important to note Berlin itself was not hit due to the fact NATO and the Soviets considered it too valuable to destroy.
- Ansbach (1st Armored Division HQ)
- Bamberg
- Bitburg
- Bochum
- Bonn
- Braunschweig
- Bremen
- Bremerhaven
- Dortmund
- Duisburg
- Düsseldorf
- Erfurt
- Essen
- Frankfurt am Main (Several strikes in the vicinity)
- Freiburg
- Fürth
- Göppingen
- Hamburg
- Hannover
- Heidelberg
- Heilbronn
- Hof
- Kassel
- Kiel
- Koblenz
- Köln (Cologne)
- Lübeck
- Mainz
- Mannheim
- Munich
- Münster
- Nuremberg
- Sprangdahlem
- Stuttgart
- Wiesbaden
- Würzburg
- Zirndorf
Yugoslavia[]
- Belgrade
Strikes in Asia[]
Afghanistan[]
- Bagram AFB
- Dasht-e-Kiligai
- Herat
- Kabul
- Shindand AFB
China[]
- Beijing
- Changchun
- Chengdu
- Chongqing
- Dalian (Port Arthur)
- Dinghai
- Fuzhou
- Ganzhou
- Guangzhou
- Guiyang
- Harbin
- Hangzhou
- Jinan
- Lanzhou
- Lhasa
- Nanjing
- Ningbo
- Nanning
- Qingdao
- Shanghai
- Shenyang
- Shenzhen
- Tianjin
- Wuhan
- Xi'an
- Zhanjiang
- Zhengzhou
Israel[]
- Ashdod
- Gaza City
- Haifa
- Hatzerim Air Base (Beersheba)
- Hatzor Air Base (Ashdod)
- Jenin
- Negev Nuclear Research Center (Dimona)
- Nevatim Air Base (Beersheba)
- Ramat David Air Base (Megiddo)
- Ramon Air Base (Beersheba)
- Sde Dov/Tel Aviv Air Base (Tel Aviv)
- Tel Nof Air Base (Rehovt)
Japan[]
- Iwakuni
- Kawasaki
- Misawa
- Nagasaki
- Okinawa/Naha
- Tokyo
- Yokohama
Jordan[]
- Amman
- King Abdullah Air Base (Marka)
- King Hussein Air Base (Al Mafraq)
- Prince Hassan Air Base (Amman)
Lebanon[]
- Baalbek
- Rayak (Riyaq)
North Korea[]
- Pyongyang
Philippines[]
- Clark Air Base (Angeles City)
- John Hay Air Base (Baguio City)
- Subic Naval Base (Zambales)
South Korea[]
- Chinhae
- Gunsan
- Pyeongtaek
- Seoul
Soviet Union (Eastern)[]
(see also above for European USSR)
- Abakan, RU
- Andijon, UZ
- Angarsk, RU
- Baikonur, KZ
- Beruni, UZ
- Biysk, RU
- Bolshoy Kamen, RU
- Chelyabinsk, RU
- Fokino, RU
- Irkutsk, RU
- Kagan, UZ
- Kemerovo, RU
- Khabarovsk, RU
- Koltsovo, RU
- Kozmino, RU
- Kurchatov, KZ
- Miass, RU
- Nakhodka, RU
- Novokuznetsk, RU
- Novosibirsk, RU
- Norilsk, RU
- Nurata, UZ
- Omsk, RU
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, RU
- Priozersk, KZ
- Semipalatinsk, KZ
- Seversk, RU
- Sverdlovsk, RU
- Tashkent,UZ
- Termez, UZ
- Tomsk, RU
- Tyumen, RU
- Uchquduq, UZ
- Uglegorsk, RU
- Ussuriysk, RU
- Vilyuchinsk, RU
- Vladivostok, RU
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, RU
- Zelenogorsk, RU
- Zheleznogorsk, RU
Syria[]
- Aleppo
- Al-Dumayr
- Al-Zabadani
- Damascus
- Homs
- Latakia
- Tartous
- Tiyas
Taiwan[]
- Taipei
United Kingdom Overseas Territories[]
- Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory - joint US/UK military base)
- Hong Kong
Vietnam[]
- Cam Ranh Bay
- Hanoi
Yemen[]
- Aden, North Yemen
- Al Mukalla, North Yemen
- Perim and Socatra Islands, North Yemen
- Al Anab PDRY Airfield
- Al Mukha PDRY Airfield
- Al Riyan PDRY Airfield
- Al Ghayhad PDRY Airfield
- Lawdar PDRY Airfield
Strikes in Oceania[]
Australia[]
- Pine Gap (Alice Springs, Northern Territory)
- Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt (Exmouth, Western Australia)
- Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar (Woomera, South Australia)
- Darwin
- Cairns
- Perth
United States (Pacific)[]
- Guam
- Johnston Atoll
- Kwajalein Atoll
- Wake Island
World Leaders during Doomsday[]
List of Heads of States[]
Nation | Title | Name | Start date | End Date |
Australia | Governor-General of Australia | Sir Ninian Martin Stephen | 29 July 1982 | |
Argentina | President | Reynaldo Bignone | July 1, 1982 | 1984 |
Bolivia | President | Hernán Siles Zuazo | 1982 | ? |
Brasil | President | João Figueiredo | 1979 | ? |
Canada | Governor-General | Edward Richard Schreyer | 1979 | ? |
Chile | President | Augusto Pinochet Ugarte | 1973, September 11 | 1986, March 11 |
Ireland | President | Patrick John Hillery (Irish: Pádraig Seán Ó hIrighile) | 1976 | 1989 |
Italy | Prime Minister | Bettino Craxi | 4 August 1983 | 26 September 1983 |
Paraguay | President | Alfredo Stroessner | 1954, August 15 | 2002 |
United Kingdom | Queen | Queen Elizabeth II | Jun. 2 1953 | 1984 |
United Kingdom | Prime Minster | Margaret Thatcher | May 4th 1979 | In Canada at time of the attack, Survived |
United States | President | Ronald Reagan | 20 Jan. 1981 | May, 1984 |
Venezuela | President | Luis Herrera Campins | Mar. 12, 1979 | Feb. 2, 1984 |
South Africa | President | Marais Vilijoen | ? | ? |
Forbes list of "Most Powerful" people of 2011[]
Where were they on DD? This list is updated every year to include the most powerful one-millionth of one percent (one per 100 million) of the world's population in our timeline. In 2011, the population topped seven billion. (2009 List)
2011 - Selected from Forbes' Most Powerful People (70 people out of seven billion):
Rank | 2009 | Name | Significance | Place on Doomsday | Survival |
1 | 1 | Barack Obama | President of the US | New York City, NY | Possibly? (may have escaped into metro system) |
2 | 3 | Vladimir Putin | Prime Minister of Russia | Moscow | Possibly? (may have escaped into metro system) |
3 | 2 | Hu Jintao | Premier of China | Beijing | No |
4 | 0 | Angela Merkel | German Chancellor | Berlin | Yes |
5 | 10 | Bill Gates | Co-founder and CEO of Microsoft | Bellevue, WA | No |
6 | 9 | Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud | King of Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia | Yes |
7 | 11 | J.A. Ratzinger |
Pope Benedict XVI | Vatican City | No |
8 | 4 | Ben Bernanke | Chairman, US Federal Reserve | Sanford, CA | No |
9 | 0 | Mark Zuckerberg | Co-founder of Facebook | In utero White Plains, NY | No |
10 | 0 | David Cameron | British PM | Berkshire | No |
11 | 0 | Sonia Gandhi | President of Indian National Congress | New Delhi (wife of PM) | Yes |
12 | 0 | Mario Draghi | President of European Central Bank | Florence, Italy | Yes |
13 | 0 | Nicolas Sarkozy | President of France | Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (mayor) | No |
14 | 0 | Wen Jiabao | Premier of People's Republic of China | Gansu Province | No |
15 | 0 | Zhou Xiaochuan | President of People's Bank of China | Beijing | No |
16 | 17 | Hillary Clinton | US Secretary of State | Little Rock, AR | Possibly |
17 | 0 | Michael Bloomberg | Mayor of NYC | Manhattan, NYC | No |
18 | 0 | Timothy Geithner | US Secretary of the Treasury | Probably Baltimore | No |
19 | 0 | Manmohan Singh | Prime Minister of India | Yes | |
20 | 14 | Warren Buffet | Billionaire Investor | Omaha, NE | No |
24 | 7 | Rupert Murdoch | Media Mogul | Probably NYC | No |
25 | 46 | Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister of Israel | Washington, DC | No |
30 | 5 | Sergey Brin | Co-founder of Google | College Park, MD | Yes |
30 | 5 | Larry Page | Co-founder of Google | Lansing, MI | NO |
50 | 31 | Bill Clinton (1983: Doomsday) | Former President of US | Little Rock, AR | Yes |
59 | 43 | Dmitry Medvedev | President of Russia | Leningrad | No |
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