Shown here are some eerie images of how the Soviet Union envisioned the Battle for the Fulda Gap would take place.  In the event of war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, it’s likely that Soviet tanks would rumble through the gap on their way to Frankfurt.  And it’s just as likely that they would have been met by the use of atomic weapons to delay their advance.  As can be seen here, the Soviet tanks were expecting the atomic blasts, and planned to dig in to continue the tank battle.

The images here are taken from a 1960 book entitled Поражающее
действие ядерного взрыва (The damaging effect of a nuclear explosion) by A.I. Vanov and G.I. Rybkin, one in the series Popular scientific library of the military publishing house published by the Soviet Defense Ministry.

Despite the word “popular” in the series title, the book appears to be a quite scholarly look at the effects of nuclear weapons.  In fact, the book contains numerous footnotes, including frequent citations of the definitive U.S. Government treatise on the subject, the Effects of Nuclear Weapons, as shown here in the bibliography: