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Where does one find maps of likely targets and plume paths?
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US Nuclear Targets

Those are war targets.
Get a list of nearby nuclear plants as well, and a common prevailing wind map for your area, and work it out for yourself for your area.
As a rule, anything vaguely southwest of you is a problem.
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As a rule, anything vaguely southwest of you is a problem.
Around here, the prevailing wind is normally out of the northwest, but I get your point.
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Aesop wrote:US Nuclear Targets

Those are war targets.
Get a list of nearby nuclear plants as well, and a common prevailing wind map for your area, and work it out for yourself for your area.
As a rule, anything vaguely southwest of you is a problem.
Almost everything on that map is south-west of me.

:lol:

Fortunately, there's some hills between a nuclear blast and me.
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Aesop wrote:US Nuclear Targets

Those are war targets.
Get a list of nearby nuclear plants as well, and a common prevailing wind map for your area, and work it out for yourself for your area.
As a rule, anything vaguely southwest of you is a problem.
Throwing a partial flag on this one. I have no clue where they got their info, and if it's validated, but they missed at least two HUGE ones in PA that I've been told were in Russia's top 5 nuke targets.

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Primary:
Bremerton (submarine base), Fairchild AFB (SAC bombers, Spokane), McChord AFB (Tacoma).
Bremerton isn't a sub base, it just cuts them up. It's home to some aircraft carriers and a large mothball fleet though. (Bangor is the sub base)

Pretty much anything in the bowl between the Olympics and Cascades is screwed.
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Jericho941 wrote:
Primary:
Bremerton (submarine base), Fairchild AFB (SAC bombers, Spokane), McChord AFB (Tacoma).
Bremerton isn't a sub base, it just cuts them up. It's home to some aircraft carriers and a large mothball fleet though. (Bangor is the sub base)

Pretty much anything in the bowl between the Olympics and Cascades is screwed.
Is Fairchild still a bomber base? If so, does it still have a nuclear mission? I thought I read a while ago about the Weapons Storage Area being demolished and freeing up the land for other purposes.
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Boys and girls, bear in mind that the nuclear targets lists were drawn up waaaaay back in the 1980s, pre-BRAC I&II, when we still had a military.
Back then, March AFB, somewhat near me, was SAC HQ West, as opposed to now, where it's mainly a breeding ground for wild jackrabbits.
Similar changes have occurred in many locales, compared to then.

Make some appropriate updated adjustments.

And realize that the Russians and Chicoms, let alone Achmed Imawannajihad, may not have up-to-date targeting info either (then or now). :roll:
It's also the case that where we would have been targeting several nearby high-value targets with dial-a-yield low kT MIRVs within a couple of miles of each other with highly accurate small-CEP weapons, the approved Soviet solution was frequently to simply drop 25 megatons on the area in one toss and call it all good, then repeat. There is a crude elegance to waging nuclear guerrilla war with actual 800-pound gorillas.
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randy wrote:
Jericho941 wrote:
Primary:
Bremerton (submarine base), Fairchild AFB (SAC bombers, Spokane), McChord AFB (Tacoma).
Bremerton isn't a sub base, it just cuts them up. It's home to some aircraft carriers and a large mothball fleet though. (Bangor is the sub base)

Pretty much anything in the bowl between the Olympics and Cascades is screwed.
Is Fairchild still a bomber base? If so, does it still have a nuclear mission? I thought I read a while ago about the Weapons Storage Area being demolished and freeing up the land for other purposes.
I think it's just a tanker base, now.
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