PHP - EUROPEAN CITIES TARGETED FOR NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION

European Cities Targeted for Nuclear Destruction : Hungarian Documents on the Soviet Bloc War Plans, 1956-1971

Edited by Vojtech Mastny, Christian Nuenlist, and Anna Locher
29 Nov 2001

Preface by Vojtech Mastny
Hungary in the Warsaw Pact by Imre Okváth
Comment on the 1965 Warsaw Pact War Game by Leopoldo Nuti
Comment on the 1965 Warsaw Pact War Game by Erwin A. Schmidl
Press Release
Die Ungarische Volksarmee im Warschauer Pakt ( German 5.0 MB ) by István Balló
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1965 War Game Exercise

13 Apr 1965	Official Communication of Major-General M. I. Jerastov, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Southern Army Group, to the Chief of Staff, Károly Csémi, on the Instruction of the UAF Headquarters to Execute a Command War Game
16 Jun 1965	Record of the Hungarian People's Army Headquarters Operational Group Directorate of the War Game
May 1965	Plan for Hungarian Command-Staff War Game
8 Jun 1965	Command of the Commander of the Southern Army Group to Conduct the War Game
12 Jun 1965	Plan of the Two-Stage Front Command War Game to be Conducted on Map in the Southern Army Group
Jun 1965	Plan of the "Easterners'" First Massive Nuclear Strike
Jun 1965	Plan of the "Westerners" First Massive Nuclear Strike
undated	Summary of Five Reports by the Chief Arbitrator of the Hungarian Army
Jun 1965	Summary of Arbitrator's Reports on a June 1965 Warsaw Pact Military Exercise

I) First Joint Staff Command Exercises, 1956

29 May 1956	Official Communication by Lieutenant-General M. F. Tikhonov, Soviet Chief Military Adviser, to Colonel-General István Bata, Hungarian Minister of Defense, on the Participation
17 Jul 1956	Report of Colonel-General István Bata, Hungarian Minister of Defense, to the HWP Central Committee on the Command Staff Exercise

II) Training Tasks and Reports on the Condition of the HPA, 1957-1960

7 Oct 1957	Official Communication from Soviet Army General Aleksei Antonov to the Hungarian General Staff on the Battle and Operational Training Assignments of the Unified Armed Forces in 1958
12 Dec 1957	Report by Lieutenant-General Géza Révész, Hungarian Minister of Defense, to Marshal Ivan Konev [Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces] on the State of the Hungarian People's Army on 1 December 1957

III) Staff Command Exercise, 1963

11 Mar 1963	Report by the Director of the Second Intelligence Group of the HPA Headquarters on the Staff Command Exercise of the Ministry of Defense
5 Jun 1963	Guiding Principles of the Operational Group Directorate on Execution of the Staff Exercise of May - June 1963
6 Jun 1963	Report of the Head of the Material and Technical Division of the Hungarian Ministry of Defense

IV) New Training Principles, 1963

29 Oct 1963	Report by Lieutenant-General Jeno Köteles, Chief Training Supervisor, to Colonel-General Lajos Czinege, Hungarian Minister of Defense, on the UAF Training Conference Held in Moscow on 22-23 October 1963
27 Dec 1963	Report to the Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Force [Andrei Grechko] on the Condition of the Hungarian People's Army in December 1963

V) Surprise in Modern War, 1966-67

22 Feb 1966	Study of the Special Features of a Surprise Outbreak of War
23 Jun 1967	Report of the Political Main Group Directorate of the Ministry of Defense on the Activity of the Political Bodies of the Fifth Army and the Third Army Corps during the War Game of the UAF Headquarters from 12-18 June 1967

VI) "Oder-Neisse" Maneuvers, 1969

30 Oct 1969

Summary Report by Lieutenant-General Károly Csémi, Chief of Staff, on the Experiences of the Hungarian Military Delegation Taking Part in the 'Oder-Neisse' Joint Military Exercise of the UAF, from 22-28 September 1969

VII) Military Requirements in the 1970s, 1970-71

31 Jan 1970	Political Report by Colonel-General Gyula Reményi, Head of the Operational Group, on the Transformation of the Military Structure of the Warsaw Treaty
Mar 1971	Report of Colonel-General János Stock, Commander of the National Air Defense Headquarters, on the UAF Air-defense Tactical Exercise of 1971

VIII) Exercise ZAPAD 81

Sep 1981

Information on the Weapons Systems of the Strategic Offensive Forces of the USSR Presented During the ZAPAD 81 Exercise