Mostly correct but with an important exception. Our two primary naval bases Fleet Base West and Fleet Base East, are located in proximity to populated areas. Fl

Mostly correct but with an important exception. Our two primary naval bases Fleet Base West and Fleet Base East, are located in proximity to populated areas. Fleet Base East is basically in Sydney and Fleet Base West is approximately 35km from Perth, somewhat offshore and to the south, but not that it’s the most accurate predictor but NukeMaps estimates for blast and fallout have moderate to significant effects on the city of Perth depending on the size of the nuke used, which depends a lot on how much an adversary wants to ensure that they destroy infrastructure the Australian and US navies can use to support, resupply, and maintain nuclear submarines in the Antarctic and Indian Oceans, the AUKUS treaty which will give Australia its first nuclear submarines also includes provisions for greater cooperation and interoperability with UK and US submarines, and will involve US nuclear submarines getting supply and basic maintenance at Fleet Base West even before we have our own nuclear attack submarines as part of the overall plan to train and upskill the Australian navy to support the new submarines. So while a strike against communications infrastructure only would indeed be aimed at facilities in remote enough locations that the general population need not worry too much about the nuclear part of the war that just happened… if they expand the target list to include the Australian navy’s facilities, then Perth and Sydney are in for a pretty bad time.