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All the nuclear power plants today are concentrated on the US east coast. Could it be a defensive posture against ICBMs flying from the Pacific Ocean?
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All the nuclear power plants today are concentrated on the US east coast. Could it be a defensive posture against ICBMs flying from the Pacific Ocean?
- alwa 2y agoI’m not sure I follow. Is the argument just that nuclear power plants are related to nuclear weapons because both use fission to do their jobs? Why would such power plants be a primary target for city-killer “strategic nuclear weapons” more than, say, an entire city? In any case, isn’t the shortest path [0] from the missile fields [1] over the arctic? For what it’s worth, though, I’d vaguely understood that distribution [2] to involve a combination of seismic instability on the West coast and populations too sparse to be worthwhile in the inland areas of the vast American West. [0] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=jgn-jfk http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=jgn-jfk [1] https://fas.org/publication/a-closer-look-at-chinas-missile-silo-construction/ https://fas.org/publication/a-closer-look-at-chinas-missile-... [2] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/manuel1/images/f1big.png http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/manuel1/images/...
- craigmoliver 2y agoIt doesn't matter where the nuclear power plants are. If nuclear war starts the world ends.