Seven Days to the River Rhine

Published at : 17 Dec 2025

- Seven Days to the River Rhine” was a hypothetical nuclear war scenario developed by the Soviet Union in 1979, outlining how the Warsaw Pact would defeat NATO and seize control of Western Europe within seven days following the outbreak of nuclear war.
Though never carried out, the document stands as a stark testament to the extreme tension and peril that defined the Cold War era.
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