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 Gagetown, in New Brunswick
 * CFB North Bay (North Bay)
 * Edmonton (Strikes over both the city itself and CFB Edmonton)
 * Halifax
 * Hamilton
 * Montreal (Strikes over Laval and Montreal itself)
 * Ottawa
 * Québec City
 * Regina
 * Toronto (Strikes over the downtown core and the suburb of Mississauga)
 * Vancouver (Strikes over the suburb of New Westminster and the city itself)
 * Windsor (Destroyed by strikes in and around Detroit)
 * 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
 * Albany, NY
 * 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 (and nearby Superior, WI)
 * 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)
 * Groom Lake AFB (Area 51, Groom Lake, NV)
 * Gulfport, MS
 * Harrisburg, PA
 * Hartford, CT
 * Havelock, NC
 * Hawthorne Army Depot (Hawthorne, NV)
 * Homestead AFB (Homestead, FL)
 * 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)
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 * 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 Valley, NV (including Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, & Henderson)
 * 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
 * Mercury, NV
 * , FL
 * Michigan City, IN
 * Midland, TX
 * Milwaukee, WI
 * Minneapolis-St. Paul (MN)
 * Minot Air Force Base (Minot, ND)
 * Mobile, AL
 * Montgomery, AL
 * Myrtle Beach, SC
 * 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 London, CT
 * New Orleans, LA
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 * Newport, RI
 * 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
 * Providence, RI
 * 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

 * Burgas
 * Plovdiv
 * Rousse
 * Sofia
 * Varna
 * Yambol

Cyprus

 * Akrotiri
 * Dhekelia

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
 * Larissa
 * Patra
 * Thessaloniki

Hungary

 * Budapest
 * Kecskemét
 * Miskolc
 * Pécs
 * Szolnok
 * Veszprém

Iceland

 * Reykjavík

Italy

 * Aviano
 * Camp Darby (located between Pisa and Livorno)
 * Ghedi
 * La Spezia
 * Milan
 * Naples
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 * Sardinia (Several strikes around the island)
 * Taranto
 * Turin
 * Verona

Netherlands

 * Amsterdam
 * Rotterdam

Norway

 * Bergen
 * Oslo

Poland

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


 * Lisbon
 * Porto

Romania

 * Brasov
 * Bucharest
 * Constanţa
 * Galati
 * Giurgiu (destroyed in the blast on the Bulgarian city of Rousse)
 * Ploiesti

Soviet Union

 * Astrakhan, RU
 * Baku, AZ (Several strikes in the vicinity)
 * Batumi, GE
 * Berdychiv, UK
 * Brest, BY
 * Brody, UK
 * Cheboksary, RU
 * Cherkasy, UK
 * Chişinău, MO
 * Chuhuiv, UK
 * Dnipropetrovsk, UK (Several strikes in the vicinity)
 * Donetsk, UK (Several strikes in the vicinity)
 * Dubno, UK
 * Ganja, AZ
 * Gomel, BY
 * Gorki, RU
 * Hrodna, BY
 * Ivano-Frankivsk, UK
 * Izmail, UK
 * Kaliningrad, RU
 * Kaunas, LT
 * Kazan, RU
 * Kharkiv/Kharkov, UK (Several strikes in the vicinity)
 * Kiev, UK (Several strikes in the vicinity)
 * Kirovohrad, UK
 * Kizlyar, RU
 * Khmelnytskyi, UK
 * Komunarsk, UK
 * Krymsk, RU
 * Kursk, RU
 * Kuybyshev, RU
 * Leningrad/St. Petersburg, RU (Several strikes in the vicinity)
 * Lipetsk, RU
 * Lutsk, UK
 * Lviv, UK
 * Makhachkala, RU
 * Mariupol, UK
 * Melitopol, UK
 * Metsamor, AR
 * Millerovo, RU
 * Minsk, BY
 * Moscow, RU (Several strikes in the vicinity)
 * Mukachevo, UK
 * Murmansk, RU
 * Mozdok, RU
 * Nizhny Novgorod, RU
 * Novohrad-Volynskyi, UK
 * Novorossiysk, RU
 * Odessa, UK
 * Orsha, BY
 * Ovruch, UK
 * Pavlohrad, UK
 * Pechenga, RU
 * Penza, RU
 * Perm, RU
 * Petrozavodsk, RU
 * Poti, GE
 * Ribnita, MO
 * Riga, LV
 * Rivne, UK
 * Rostov-on-Don, RU (Several strikes in the vicinity)
 * Saratov, RU
 * Sevastapool, UK (Several strikes in the vicinity)
 * Severodonetsk, UK
 * Simferopol, UK
 * Smila, UK
 * Sochi, RU
 * Stryi, UK
 * Sukhumi, GE
 * Sverdlovsk, UK
 * Taganrog, RU (Also causing Tsunamis in the Sea of Asov)
 * Tallin, ES
 * Tambov, RU
 * Tbilisi, GE
 * Ternopil, UK
 * Tiraspol, MO
 * Tuapse, RU
 * Ufa, RU
 * Uzyn, UK
 * Uzhhorod, UK
 * Vinnytsia, UK
 * Volgorgrad, RU
 * Volodymyr-Volynskyi, UK
 * Voronezh, RU
 * Yekaterinburg, RU
 * Yerevan, AR
 * Zaporizhia, UK
 * Zhytomyr, UK


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

Turkey

 * Adana
 * Alanya
 * Ankara
 * Bursa
 * Erzurum
 * Istanbul
 * Izmir

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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There were three waves of Nuclear detonations across the UK,

The first wave of tactical nuclear weapons detonated across the UK military bases between 1.52am and 1.58am. 150 kilotonnes detonations occured over Portsmouth, Southamton and Plymouth (probably due to their large military bases) as well as two one megatonne detonations over the City of London. Less than 10 minutes later a second wave hit the 15 largest population centres across the UK between 2.02am and 2.11am. These were London (seven seperate blasts), Birmingham, Glasgow (missed, detonated to the west of the city over Dunbarton), Liverpool (missed, detonated over the north of the city near Aintree), Leeds, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester, Leicester, Coventry, Kingston upon Hull, 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 2.22am and 2.36am.

In total between 65 and 70 large (100 kilotonne+) nuclear weapons fall on major UK cities, and around 70 tactical nuclear weapons (10 kilotonnes) fall on military base throughout the UK on doomsday. Nuclear blast totals in the UK exceded 15 megatonnes. Due to the time of the attack the first many people knew of the attack was a bright flash that woke them up followed by the blast wave that killed them. Of those who were awake at the time of the attack and survived to tell their stories, tell of seeing a new (or in some cases a second or third) sun in the sky followed by hurricane force winds that were burning hot.

Although details of the destruction of London are sketchy, it is believed that at least 12 nuclear detonations occured 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. A Celtic Alliance pilot on a reconnaissance flight over the area in 2007 described it as "craters, rubble, and glass". The Greater London area is currently off limits to all but official scientific and military personnel. A comprehensive expedition into the wasteland is scheduled for 2012.

Other major cities hit included:


 * Manchester - second wave (200 KT), re-hit with third wave (100KT)
 * Birmingham - second wave (200 KT), re-hit with third wave (100 KT)
 * Belfast - second wave (200 KT)
 * Edinburgh - second wave (200KT)
 * Leeds - second wave (200KT), re-hit with third wave (100KT)
 * Sheffield - second wave (200KT), re-hit with third wave (100KT)
 * Bradford - second wave (100KT)
 * York - third wave (100KT)
 * Kingston upon Hull - second wave (100KT)
 * Newcastle - third wave (200KT)
 * Sunderland - third wave (200KT)
 * Bristol - second wave (100KT)
 * Leicester - second wave (200KT)
 * Norwich- third wave (100KT)
 * Coventry - second wave (100KT)
 * Cardiff - second wave (200KT)
 * Stoke on Trent - third wave (100KT)
 * Wolverhamton - third wave (100KT)
 * Nottingham -third wave (200KT)
 * Plymouth - three or possibly four detonations over naval bases. - first wave (150KT), re-hit in third wave 2 or 3 (200KT)
 * Portsmouth - two or possibly three detonations over HMNB Portsmouth (HMS Nelson) area.- first wave (150KT), re-hit in third wave 2 or 3 (200KT)
 * Southampton - three detonations over port area.- first wave (150KT), re-hit in third wave (2 x 200KT). Also destroyed in the attack was RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 which was still undergoing a major refit after the Falklands war.
 * Reading - third wave (100KT)
 * Dudley - third wave (100KT)
 * Northamton - third wave (200KT)
 * Durham - third wave (100KT)
 * Luton - third wave (200KT)
 * Swansea - third wave (200KT)
 * Bournmouth - third wave (200KT)
 * Southend on Sea - third wave (100KT)
 * Swindon - third wave (100KT)
 * Huddersfield - third wave (100KT)
 * Oxford - third wave (100KT)
 * Cambridge - third wave (100KT)
 * Stockport - third wave (100KT)
 * Peterborough - third wave (100KT)
 * Slough - third wave (100KT)
 * Brighton - third wave (100KT)
 * Gloucester - third wave (100KT)
 * Rotherham - third wave (100KT)
 * Newport - third wave (100KT)

Several major cities in the United Kingdom avoided complete destruction, due to malfunctioning missiles, these included.


 * Middlesbrough - one 100KT hit over the North Sea NE of Hartlepool, one 100KT over the North Yorkshire Moors, and one 100 KT bomb discovered unexploded in 2010.
 * Liverpool - (200KT) hit to the north of the city, over Aintree.
 * Glasgow - (200KT) hit to the west of the city, over Dunbarton.

West Germany

 * Ansbach
 * Bamburg
 * 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


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

China

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 * Changchun
 * Chengdu
 * Chongqing
 * Dalian (Port Arthur)
 * 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
(see also above for European USSR)
 * Andijon,UZ
 * Baikonur Cosmodrome,KZ
 * Beruni,UZ
 * Bolshoy Kamen,RU
 * Bratsk,RU
 * Chelyabinsk,RU
 * Irkutsk,RU
 * Kagan,UZ
 * Khabarovsk,RU
 * Komsomolsk-on-Amur,RU
 * Kozmino,RU
 * Krasnoyarsk,RU
 * Nakhodka,RU
 * Novosibirsk,RU
 * Nurata,UZ
 * Omsk,RU
 * Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,RU
 * Semipalatinsk,KZ
 * Sverdlovsk,RU
 * Tashkent,UZ
 * Termez,UZ
 * Uchquduq,UZ
 * Ussuriysk,RU
 * Vladivostok,RU


 * Aleppo
 * Damascus
 * Dumayr
 * Homs
 * Latakia
 * Tartous
 * Zabadani


 * Taipei

United Kingdom overseas Territories

 * Hong Kong


 * Cam Ranh Bay
 * Hanoi


 * 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

Australia

 * Melbourne
 * Perth
 * Sydney

United States

 * Guam
 * Johnston Atoll
 * Kwajalein Atoll
 * Wake Island

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