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Have you ever heard the term "nuclear sponge"? Projections for a nuclear war is that like half of the midwest gets nuked to smithereens in order to hit the silo
by chc4 5y ago
Have you ever heard the term "nuclear sponge"? Projections for a nuclear war is that like half of the midwest gets nuked to smithereens in order to hit the silos; it probably doesn't matter much if one is in your backyard or a hundred miles down the road.
- CapitalistCartr 5y agoDuring the Cold War, we had 1050 holes in the ground, spread across Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, and the Dakotas. It was exactly that, an impossible sponge to soak up the Soviet capability. And that's just the Northern Tier Missile field.
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