Emergency War Plan

United States

• The "Halfmoon" Joint Emergency War Plan prepared after the 1948 Bikini Atoll nuclear tests, proposed dropping 50 atomic bombs on 20 Soviet cities, and President Harry S. Truman approved "Halfmoon" during the June 1948 Berlin Blockade.
• Emergency War Plan 1–49 was created by Strategic Air Command for delivering 133 atomic bombs, "the entire stockpile…in a single massive attack" on 70 Soviet cities over 30 days. According to Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser, seven atomic bombs were to be used on Leningrad, and eight were to be used on Moscow.
• U.S. Joint Outline Emergency War Plan, approved in September 1952, called for withdrawing from the Rhine to the Pyrenees and from Northern Europe to Norway after the strike from SAC, while also striving to hold Southern Italy.