Today the leaders of 50 nations are in The Hague to discuss nuclear safety. Only 44 years ago the Warsaw Pact planned to target this and other cities with a nuclear strike. The map is signed in 1970 by the Minister of Defense Jaruzelski, the later Polish Prime Minister. It shows a Warsaw Pact invasion plan for Northern Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands. On the map the red bomb-like figures represent nuclear strikes. It was calculated that the Polish soldiers who were to lead the invasion would be affected by radiation and unable to proceed after seven days into the invasion. Other Soviet forces would take over. It is fascinating and unsettling to see how the cities I know very well and also live in today were selected to be annihilated.

The map was made public in 2005 by the Polish Institute for National Remembrance. This version was part of an exhibition by Gert Jan Kocken.