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Unfortunately, people tend to build nuke magnets in places that they are fine with nukes landing. Kansas, South Dakota, Idaho...
by DuskStar 5y ago
Unfortunately, people tend to build nuke magnets in places that they are fine with nukes landing. Kansas, South Dakota, Idaho...
- duxup 5y agoNorth Dakota too.
- rkagerer 5y agoI wonder if your property's coordinates would remain in any old but still-commissioned targetting databases of adversarial nations. Like living under a big red X.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y agoWell, there is a good argument to be made for being in the center of the attack as preferable to the alternative.
- kingkawn 5y agoMy grandfather was in the US army and participated in nuclear weapons testing throughout his later career. He said if war broke out with the Soviets that everyone should go sit on the roof and wait for the mushroom cloud to be sure not to survive.
- duxup 5y agoI always wondered how much targeting of silos occurred. Or at least how they dealt with that. MAD really seemed to require you unleash everything and generally if the others did you would be targeting a lot of empty silos in the middle of nowhere. At least those in the Midwest.
- edrxty 5y agoThis was my first thought. If I had a dollar for every time I ran across a database that was horrifically out of date I'd be...getting paid less than I already am
- duxup 5y agoWhere I lived after the Cold War the local news world cover imploding missile silos once in a while. They interviewed the American and Russians (they get to watch) folks at the site. Young reporter once asked how the Russians could be sure what silo it is if they’re escorted by Americans the whole time. The American commander paused and said “My Russian counterpart here probably knows this location as well as I do.” The Russian who previously only used a translator burst out in a smile and belly laugh.
- dboreham 5y agoAlso North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming.
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- asdff 5y agoNot always. The old Nike missile control building in the Santa Monica Mountains would have made for a sweet lair in a pretty good location.
- Maxion 5y agoThis one? https://californiathroughmylens.com/san-vicente-mountain-park-nike-missle-site https://californiathroughmylens.com/san-vicente-mountain-par...
- suifbwish 5y agoWhat is the point of nuking something that is one of the only buildings specifically designed to withstand nuclear attacks? It seems kind of wasteful of weaponry to attack something that you cannot destroy. I would definitely take my chances in a nuclear silo in the event of such circumstances; if you are within 50 miles of anywhere that is hit with a modern nuclear weapon you are completely screwed unless you are underground in a structure designed to withstand the megaton winds and incredibly thermal radiance.
- robotresearcher 5y agoYour alternative is not to nuke it, and allow the missile there to destroy one of your cities (or maybe one of your own remote missile sites, but who knows?).
- GekkePrutser 5y agoThey won't withstand a direct hit. They're hardened but not against that. It would have to be inside a mountain like NORAD. The plan was always to get them off the ground before most of the enemy missiles hit. And perhaps to withstand a nearby attack, as targeting tech in the 60s was not very accurate yet. But these days that won't work anymore.
- WaxProlix 5y agoIdaho sounds great! Would never ever live in the other two, ofc.