Details of an alleged British and American plan to launch a nuclear attack on Russia just two years on from the end of the Second World War have been unearthed.
The rumoured plans, outlined in 1946, would have seen Allied planes hammer Soviet positions in Germany and eastern Europe to pre-empt an expected Russian attack.
As part of the force, as many as 400 Mosquito fighter-bombers - which were famously made of plywood - would have been equipped with atomic bombs.
The British and American aim, according to the Swiss military officials who drew up the 'annex', was to have the effect of 'paralysing the points of departure' of a Soviet offensive for up to 45 days.
The file outlining the claimed plot, which the Swiss said would not have been ready to launch until at least the summer of 1947, was discovered by the Daily Mail in the National Archives at Kew in West London.
