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Could we also have lists of targets compiled by other nuclear powers?
by surfingdino 3y ago
Could we also have lists of targets compiled by other nuclear powers?
- wrsh07 3y agoThere's something deeply unsettling about an interaction where you pick a location (not in the US) and click "detonate" That might be intentional (and could make for an interesting art experience!) but I'm honestly more interested in understanding averages than individual examples. Eg ten warheads are randomly detonated at one of the locations, 100? 1000? It's important to note that there's no chance we have dozens of nuclear warheads flying without retaliatory strikes
- AniseAbyss 3y agoI remember reading that although France had a completely independent nuclear force they did secretly cooperate with NATO on targeting sites so that none of their nukes would be "wasted".
- justahuman74 3y agohttps://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/best-places-to-survive-a-nuclear-apocalypse/ https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/best-places-to-survive-... has a map of what would get hit in the US
- The_Colonel 3y agoI have just tidbit - that Vienna, the capital of a neutral country Austria, was one of the first Soviet targets for nuclear strike: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/1364037/Vienna-was-top-of-Soviet-nuclear-targets-list.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/13...
- surfingdino 3y agoI guess the Soviets' thinking was that if the nuclear war breaks out nobody needs their favourite spy city anymore.
- euroderf 3y agoNeutral Helsinki had its airport targeted by the West because of treaty obligations to the commies.
- yencabulator 3y agoThe Nordic countries all know their airports will be gone in the first 2-3 days of any kind of war, nuclear or conventional. The Swedes are essentially specialists in mobile fighter jet operations using highways, and Finland builds select roads wider than needed just to prepare for that...