According to the briefing, it was estimated that SAC could lay down an attack under these conditions of 600–750 bombs by approaching Russia from many directions so as to hit their early warning screen simultaneously. It would require about 2 hours from this moment until bombs had been dropped by using the bomb-as-you-go system in which both BRAVO [i.e. blunting] and DELTA [i.e. disruption] targets would be hit as they reached them. … The final impression was that virtually all of Russia would be nothing but a smoking, radiating ruin at the end of two hours.76
