<sod>The plan envisioned a nuclear attack on the [[Soviet Union]] with 20 to 30 atomic bombs. It earmarked 20 Soviet cities for obliteration in a first strike: [[Moscow]], [[Nizhny Novgorod|Gorky]], [[Samara, Russia|Kuybyshev]], [[Yekaterinburg|Sverdlovsk]], [[Novosibirsk]], [[Omsk]], [[Saratov]], [[Kazan]], [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]], [[Baku]], [[Tashkent]], [[Chelyabinsk]], [[Nizhny Tagil]], [[Magnitogorsk]], [[Perm|Molotov]], [[Tbilisi]], [[Novokuznetsk|Stalinsk]], [[Grozny]], [[Irkutsk]], and [[Yaroslavl]].<ref> Michio Kaku and Daniel Axelrod, "To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans", Boston, South End Press, 1987, pp. 30-31.</ref> However this plan was actually a [[Disinformation|disinformation ploy]]; it was only in 1946 the [[United States]] could boast even nine atomic bombs in its inventory, along with twenty-seven [[Boeing B-29 Superfortress|B-29s]] capable at any one time of delivering them.<ref name=Rosenberg>{{cite journal |last=Rosenberg |first=David A |date=June 1979 |title=American Atomic Strategy and the Hydrogen Bomb Decision |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1894674 |journal=The Journal of American History |number=66.1 |pages=62–87}}</ref> Plan Totality was part of Truman's 'giant atomic bluff' aimed primarily (and unsuccessfully) at the Soviet Union.<eod>
<sod>The plan envisioned a nuclear attack on the [[Soviet Union]] with 20 to 30 atomic bombs. It earmarked 20 Soviet cities for obliteration in a first strike: [[Moscow]], [[Nizhny Novgorod|Gorky]], [[Samara, Russia|Kuybyshev]], [[Yekaterinburg|Sverdlovsk]], [[Novosibirsk]], [[Omsk]], [[Saratov]], [[Kazan]], [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]], [[Baku]], [[Tashkent]], [[Chelyabinsk]], [[Nizhny Tagil]], [[Magnitogorsk]], [[Perm|Molotov]], [[Tbilisi]], [[Novokuznetsk|Stalinsk]], [[Grozny]], [[Irkutsk]], and [[Yaroslavl]].<ref> Michio Kaku and Daniel Axelrod, "To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans", Boston, South End Press, 1987, pp. 30-31.</ref> However this plan was actually a [[Disinformation|disinformation ploy]]; it was only in 1946 the [[United States]] could boast even nine atomic bombs in its inventory, along with twenty-seven [[Boeing B-29 Superfortress|B-29s]] capable of delivering them.<ref name=Rosenberg>{{cite journal |last=Rosenberg |first=David A |date=June 1979 |title=American Atomic Strategy and the Hydrogen Bomb Decision |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1894674 |journal=The Journal of American History |number=66.1 |pages=62–87}}</ref> Plan Totality was part of Truman's 'giant atomic bluff' aimed primarily (and unsuccessfully) at the Soviet Union.<eod>