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OPEN-RISOP

This is an attempt to build an open-sourced version of the Red Integrated Strategic Operational Plan (RISOP) using an open-sourced targeting database and weapon allocation modules and consequence of execution tools.

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What it is

This is an attempt to build an open-sourced version of the Red Integrated Strategic Operational Plan (RISOP) using an open-sourced targeting database and weapon allocation modules and consequence of execution tools.

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This week on Hacker News

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Observed mentions: 2022-03-24 19:07:24 UTC to 2024-01-20 21:24:44 UTC.

0123452022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 20222022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2024

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What Hacker News says

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runlevel1·Jan 20, 2024
To my knowledge, no Russian targeting plans have ever been declassified, but an open source project called OPEN-RISOP[^1] has a few hypothetical attack plans that give some idea of what would be targeted. Its creator, David Teter, is a former advisor to USSTRATCOM, DIA, and DTRA on strategic plans (SIOP/OPLANs 8044/8010), kinetic and non-kinetic weapon effects, vulnerability analysis, and targeting. It's raw data, so to get a visualization you need to use something like Nuclear War Simulator[^2]†. Here's a video showing one such plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF0mEOCK2KE [^1]: https://github.com/davidteter/OPEN-RISOP [^2]: https://nuclearwarsimulator.com † NWS is on Steam, but don't go into it expecting a game-like experience. It's more of a rather technical "what-if" simulator.
In 1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets
nostrademons·Apr 16, 2022
Elsewhere in this thread he links to David Teter's OPEN-RISOP as his source. [1] The quality of OPEN-RISOP is generally pretty good, and the author worked at Sandia National Labs about 10-20 years ago. Targeting at least is pretty consistent with what I'd expect as high value targets. OPEN-RISOP's counterforce + countervalue scenario only tallies about 60M fatalities (~20% of US population) from the original attack. chakalakaps must be assuming cascading failures of infrastructure & food production after the initial attack (a la Threads [2]). While this is a distinct possibility, it's far from a given - and this is also one of those areas where being prepared (eg. having a year of dried foodstuffs stored, or a small personal garden) can give you a distinct survival advantage. [1] https://github.com/davidteter/OPEN-RISOP/tree/main/TARG
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ET%20... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Srqyd8B9gE
In How destructive are nuclear weapons really?
chakalakasp·Apr 16, 2022
There are multiple plans for multiple contingencies. A couple of different examples are here: https://github.com/davidteter/OPEN-RISOP The fallout thing is kinda a unlikely thing. Fallout from typical ground-bursts is something that denies area for weeks at most. There are weapons systems that can do area denial for much longer by using weapons salted with materials that will remain radioactive for many years (essentially the plot of Dr. Strangelove -- that "doomsday" system is based on realistic weapons possibilities, and the Russians in the past decade intimated that they have developed a submersible drone system designed to cross the ocean and detonate huge salted weapons to poison the U.S. coasts for decades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_... ) -- but as far as anyone in the open source info world knows,
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these kinds of weapons are not deployed.
In How destructive are nuclear weapons really?
chakalakasp·Apr 8, 2022
Main GitHub page: https://github.com/davidteter/OPEN-RISOP A former U.S. nuclear warplanner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmteter) is developing an open source target database and target laydowns against U.S. targets, assuming a Russian attack in present day. He focuses on three scenarios, two excursion scenarios (a pure "counterforce" attack in which Russia only targets U.S. nuclear weapons, a pure "countervaule" attack in which Russia focuses entirely on creating maximum death and damage to infrastructure) and one main scenario that would generally be considered the most likely type of attack, which is a blend of counterforce and countervalue. Some notes I've taken from his reddit and Twitter explanations: this attack is modeled against the U.S. only. He did not attempt to do targeting for the EU theatre as that gets into his previous
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job, which was very intimately familiar with a lot of classified stuff that he doesn't want to build into a map; however, he said that EU/APAC/maybe China theatre would be targeted, mostly with shorter range "tactical" weapons. He did a ton of work, calculating VNTK (https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/VNTK) for each target, and planned his attack just like he used to plan attacks against the Russian theatre, making sure to hit things like spent fuel storage for area denial, hitting the right dams to cascade fail hydrology management on major rivers (Baton Rouge would be under a couple hundred feet of water within a few weeks and would be "scoured clean"), etc. In the end, he estimates that 95 percent of the U.S. population would be dead within 18 months of the attack due to complete lack of infrastructure, food, water, medicine, medical treatment, logistics, heat, power, etc.
In Open-RISOP: A former U.S. Nuclear warplanner's attack plans against the U.S.

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