About nuclear bombs

Was it yesterday I was reading the locel newspaper and it mentioned cooperation with near areas in Russia using the name "Leningrad Oblast" and I was left wondering if it was the old name of the area and had it been bombed by an atom bomb and when, was it in the 1980's? An atom bomb seems to be a different things from a murder in the media, which raises the person to our attention while an atom bomb in a town kind of erases such place away, since people think that maybe some foreigners thought such was on a troo big emphazis, had too big influence in the wolrd, could not carry it, and so the people near by keep quiet more than usual. Like a year ago after the new year was so quiet as if Stockholm in Sweden had been bombed and all at lost what think and say, if say anything at all. But I wonder if it is at all the longed for influence in the world  that causes such, is it more likely that it is some side effect which often comes along with the influence, but which maybe rthey themselves cannot carry so well, but still they are among the most wanted influencies, I guess best or most oriented toward such things. But it does not leave a taste of traditional warfare, more like erasing from one's picture of the world such striking source of influence, to which a media silence and no influencies from places with close tiesa to such culture and ways, maybe valuyes, would be better suited.