Doomsday (1983: Doomsday)

The purpose of this page is to offer a detailed report of the events of September 25/26, 1983, forever 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.

'WARNING: THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE. DO NOT ASSUME A LOCATION WAS MISSED JUST BECAUSE IT IS NOT HERE. DO YOUR RESEARCH.'


 * Calgary
 * CFB North Bay (North Bay)
 * Edmonton
 * Halifax
 * Montreal
 * Ottawa
 * Québec City
 * Regina
 * Toronto
 * Vancouver
 * Winnipeg


 * Havana
 * Santiago

Panama

 * Howard Air Force Base (Panama City)


 * Roosevelt Roads Naval Station (Ceiba)

United States

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 * Aberdeen Proving Grounds (Aberdeen, MD)
 * Abilene, TX
 * Alexandria, LA
 * Alexandria, VA
 * Anaheim. CA
 * Andrews Air Force Base (Camp Springs, MD)
 * Atlanta, GA
 * Arlington, VA
 * Augusta, GA
 * Aurora, IL
 * Austin, TX
 * Baltimore, MD
 * Bath Iron Works (Bath, ME)
 * Baton Rouge, LA
 * Bethlehem, PA
 * Biloxi, MS
 * Birmingham, AL
 * Blytheville, AR
 * Boise, ID
 * Boston, MA
 * Brownsville, TX
 * Buffalo, NY
 * Burlington, IA
 * Camp David, MD
 * Camp Lejuene (Jacksonville, NC)
 * Cedar Rapids, IA
 * Chanute Air Force Base (Rantoul, IL)
 * Charlotte, NC
 * Chattanooga, TN
 * Chicago, IL
 * Cincinnati, OH
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 * Columbus AFB (Columbus, MS)
 * Columbus, GA
 * Corpus Christi, TX
 * Crane Army Ammunition Activity (Crane, IN)
 * Custer, OK
 * Dallas, TX
 * Decatur, IL
 * Del Rio, TX
 * Denver, CO
 * Des Moines, IA
 * Des Plaines, IL
 * Detroit, MI
 * Dover Air Force Base (Dover, DE)
 * Duluth, MN
 * El Paso, TX
 * Ellsworth Air Force Base (Rapid City, SD)
 * Elmendorf Air Force Base (Anchorage, AK)
 * Enid, OK
 * Erie, PA
 * Fairbanks, AK
 * Fayetteville, NC
 * Fort Benning, GA
 * Fort Detrick (Frederick, MD)
 * Fort Dix-McGuire Air Force Base (Burlington Co., NJ)
 * Fort George Meade (Odenton, MD)
 * Fort Hunter Liggett, CA
 * Fort Lauderdale, FL
 * Fort Leonard Wood (Pulaski Co., MO)
 * Fort Monmouth (Monmouth Co., NJ)
 * 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, ME
 * Galveston, TX
 * Gary, IN
 * Goldsboro, NC
 * Griffis AFB (Rome and Utica, NY)
 * Grissom Air Force Base (Kokomo, IN)
 * Gulfport, MS
 * Harrisburg, PA
 * Havelock, NC
 * Honolulu, HI
 * Houston, TX
 * Huntsville, AL
 * Indiana Army Ammunitions Plant (Charlestown, IN)
 * Indianapolis, IN
 * Jackson, MS
 * Jefferson City, MO
 * 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
 * Lake Charles, LA
 * Lakehurst Naval Air Station (Lakehurst, NJ)
 * Langley Air Force Base (Hampton, VA)


 * Las Vegas, NV
 * Little Rock AFB (Little Rock, AR)
 * Louisville, KY (also destroyed Jeffersonville, IN)
 * Longview, TX
 * Loring Air Force Base (Limestone, ME)
 * Los Angeles, CA
 * Lubbock, TX
 * Malmstrom Air Force Base (Cascade Co., MT)


 * McLean, VA
 * Memphis, TN
 * Miami, FL
 * Michigan City, IN
 * Midland, TX
 * Milwaukee, WI
 * Minneapolis-St. Paul (MN)
 * Minot Air Force Base (Minot, ND)
 * Myrtle Beach, SC
 * Mobile, AL
 * Montgomery, AL
 * Nashville, TN
 * Naval Air Station Brunswick (Brunswick)
 * Naval Air Station Glenview (Glenview, IL)
 * Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove (Willow Grove, PA)
 * New Orleans, LA
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 * Norfolk-Newport News, VA
 * 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
 * Pacific Missile Range, Kauai, HI
 * Parris Island, SC
 * Pease Air Force Base (Portsmouth, NH)
 * Peoria, IL
 * Perth Amboy, NJ
 * Phenix City, AL
 * Philadelphia, PA
 * Phoenix, AZ
 * Pittsburgh, PA
 * Plattsburgh Air Force Base (Plattsburgh, NY and Burlington, VT)
 * Portland, ME
 * Portland, OR
 * Portsmouth, NH
 * Raleigh, NC
 * Raven Rock Mountain Complex
 * Richmond, KY
 * Richmond, VA
 * Rochester, NY
 * Rockford, IL
 * Russellville, AR
 * Saint Louis, MO (East St. Louis destroyed as well)
 * Salinas, CA
 * Salt Lake City, UT
 * San Angelo, TX
 * San Antonio, TX
 * San Diego, CA
 * San Francisco, CA
 * San Jose, CA
 * Savannah, GA
 * Schenectady, NY
 * Scott Air Force Base (Belleville, IL)
 * Scranton, PA
 * Seattle, WA
 * Shreveport, LA
 * Sioux City, IA
 * Springfield, IL
 * Stewart International Airport (Newburgh, NY)
 * Syracuse, NY
 * Tampa Bay, FL
 * Texarkana, AR-TX
 * Topeka, KS
 * Trenton, NJ
 * Tulsa, OK
 * Universal City, TX
 * Vandenburg Air Force Base (Santa Maria, CA)
 * Waco, TX
 * Warner-Robins SAC (near Macon, GA)
 * Watervliet Arsenal (Watervliet and Troy, NY)
 * Wheeling, WV
 * Whiteman Air Force Base (near Warrensburg, MO)
 * Wichita, KS (McConnell AFB)
 * Wichita Falls, TX
 * Wilkes-Barre, PA
 * Wilkes-Barre, PA

Albania

 * Tirana

Austria

 * Vienna

Belgium

 * Antwerp
 * Brussels

Bulgaria

 * Sofia

Czechoslovakia

 * Bela pod Bezdezem
 * Bilna
 * Misov (near Plzen)
 * Prague

Denmark

 * Copenhagen

East Germany

 * Altenburg
 * Dranske
 * Dresden
 * Fürstenberg/Havel
 * Leipzig
 * Magdeburg
 * Peenemünde
 * Rostock
 * Strausberg
 * Wünsdorf


 * Paris (multiple strikes)
 * Lyon
 * Marseille
 * Metz
 * Montpelier
 * Bordeaux
 * Le Havre

Greece

 * Athens
 * Thessaloniki

Hungary

 * Budapest

Iceland

 * Reykjavík

Italy

 * Milan
 * Rome
 * Turin

Netherlands

 * Amsterdam
 * Rotterdam

Norway

 * Bergen
 * Oslo

Poland

 * Bydgoszcz
 * Gdańsk/Danzig
 * Krakow
 * Lubin
 * Szczecin
 * Warsaw
 * Wrocław


 * Lisbon
 * Porto

Romania

 * Bucharest
 * Constanţa

Soviet Union

 * Baku
 * Batumi
 * Black Sea ( Tsunami destroyed Taganrod)
 * Dnipropetrovsk
 * Donetsk
 * Gorki
 * Karlingrad
 * Kaunas
 * Kazan
 * Kharkiv/Kharkov
 * Kiev
 * Kuybyshev
 * Leningrad
 * Minsk
 * Moscow
 * Murmansk
 * Nizhny Novgorod
 * Novorossisk
 * Odessa
 * Pechenga
 * Perm
 * Petrozavodsk
 * Riga
 * Rostov-on-Don
 * Sevastapool
 * Sochi
 * Sverdlovsk
 * Tallin
 * Tbilisi
 * Tuapse
 * Ufa
 * Volgorgrad


 * Barcelona
 * Bilbao
 * Madrid-Torrejón
 * Moron
 * Rota
 * Valencia
 * Zaragoza

Turkey

 * Adana
 * Alanya
 * Ankara
 * Bursa
 * Erzurum
 * Istanbul
 * izmir

United Kingdom

 * Aberdeen
 * Aldershot
 * Belfast
 * Birmingham
 * Cardiff
 * Colchester
 * Dundee
 * Durham
 * Edinburgh
 * Gibraltar
 * Glasgow
 * Leeds
 * Liverpool
 * London
 * Manchester
 * Newcastle
 * Portsmouth
 * Sheffield
 * Southhampton
 * Sunderland
 * York
 * Yorkshire Moors

West Germany

 * Bitburg
 * Bonn
 * Bremen
 * Bremerhaven
 * Dortmund
 * Düsseldorf
 * Frankfurt am Main
 * Hamburg
 * Hannover
 * Kiel
 * Lübeck
 * Munich
 * Nuremberg
 * Ruhrgebiet/Ruhr
 * Sprangdahlem
 * Stuttgart
 * Wiesbaden


 * Bagram AFB
 * Dasht-e-Kiligai
 * Herat
 * Kabul
 * Shindand AFB

China

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 * Changchun
 * Chengdu
 * Chongqing
 * Dalian
 * Dinghai
 * Fuzhou
 * Ganzhou
 * Guangzhou
 * Guiyang
 * Harbin
 * Jinan
 * Lanzhou
 * Lhasa
 * Lunoning
 * Nanjing
 * Nanning
 * Qingdao
 * Shanghai
 * Shenyang
 * Shenzhen
 * Tianjin
 * Wuhan
 * Xi'an
 * Zham Jiang


 * 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 Aviv
 * Tel Nof Air Base (Rehovt)


 * Iwakuni
 * Kawasaki
 * Misawa
 * Nagasaki
 * Okinawa/Naha
 * Tokyo
 * Yokohama


 * Amman
 * King Abdullah Air Base (Marka)
 * King Hussein Air Base (Al Mafraq)
 * Prince Hassan Air Base (Amman)


 * Baalbek
 * Rayak (Riyaq)

North Korea

 * Pyongyang


 * Clark Air Base (Angeles City)
 * John Hay Air Base (Baguio City)
 * Subic Naval Base (Zambales)

South Korea

 * Chinhae
 * Gunsan
 * Pyeongtaek
 * Seoul

Soviet Union

 * Bolshoy Kamen
 * Bratsk
 * Chelyabinsk
 * Irkutsk
 * Khabarovsk
 * Komsomolsk-on-Amur
 * Kozmino
 * Nakhodka
 * Novosibirsk
 * Omsk
 * Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
 * Semipalatinsk
 * Sverdlovsk
 * Tashkent
 * Ussuriysk
 * Vladivostok


 * Aleppo
 * Damascus
 * Dumayr
 * Homs
 * Latakia
 * Tartous
 * Zandani


 * Taipei

United Kingdom

 * Hong Kong


 * Cam Ranh Bay
 * Hanoi

Australia

 * Melbourne
 * Perth
 * Sydney

United States

 * Guam
 * Johnston Atoll
 * Kwajalein Atoll
 * Wake Island