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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Operation_Dropshot/wFj41qUu">Operation Dropshot</a></li></ul>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Schlosser, Eric (2014). Command and Control Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (1st ed.). Penguin Group USA. p. 204. ISBN 978-0143125785. They began by poring through the Air Force's Bombing Encyclopedia, a compendium of more than eighty thousand potential targets located throughout the world. The book gave a brief description of each target, its longitude and latitude and elevation, its category—such as military or industrial, airfield or oil refinery—and its "B.E. number," a unique eight-digit identifier. From that lengthy inventory, twelve thousand candidates in the Soviet Union, the Eastern bloc, and China were selected. <a href="978-0143125785" target="_blank">978-0143125785</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Gregory, Derek (3 August 2012). "Bombing Encyclopedia of the World". geographical imaginations. Retrieved 1 June 2015. <a href="http://geographicalimaginations.com/2012/08/03/bombing-encyclopedia-of-the-world/" target="_blank">http://geographicalimaginations.com/2012/08/03/bombing-encyclopedia-of-the-world/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Eden, Lynn (2006). Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation. Cornell University Press. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-8014-7289-3. <a href="978-0-8014-7289-3" target="_blank">978-0-8014-7289-3</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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