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Pakistan to drop nuclear weapon on Israel if Israel nukes Iran, says Rezaei
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Welp, good thing I don't live in any major metro area nor near any strategically critical infrastructure.
I do, Oklahoma will be vaporized, so I won't have to deal with any fallout. Unless I become a ghoul or something. Maybe I should start collecting bottle camps. At the very less, someone looting the ruins will get a big payday.
I think this is a more realistic projection that accounts for... updated modern understsnding of how long radiation persists in nature, as well as... there aren't as many nuclear weapons as there were at the height of the Cold War, and those nuclear weapons are now more spread out against a whole bunch of other nculear powers and targets around the world...
So... if you're in OK, you could maybe stand a shot at avoiding a massively irradiated area if there was any warning?
Or, a reasonable shot at only needing 2 weeks of food and water to shelter in place and ... at least not die of radiation poisoning?
On the other hand, FEMA barely exists, and the Post Office is fucked... so that would cripple the older triage and rebuild plans I am aware of from the Cold War.
All the old postal carrier vehicles were supposed to be turned into makeshift ambulances...
...
But anyway, just a general 'lol' at all the ICBM sites in the great plains getting at least one if not several nukes likely dedicated to them, each.
Why such a big one for Seattle? I think a smaller tactical thing would do the trick no? Maybe over by Redmond? I propose a properly Gerrymandered fall out map.
Seattle has:
Medium sized international commercial sea port.
Boeing Field, half of which is a military only zone.
Largest manufactorium of aircraft in the world a bit north in Everett, more stuff in Kent.
Also in Everett is a deep water west coast Naval base.
Nearby to Seattle is JBLM, huge military base.
Nearby is also Fairchild and Kitsap major Naval bases. Fairchild has Navy's ELINT aircraft, Kitsap has a whole lotta submarines.
Major general convergence point for road traffic, blow apart I5, imagine 405 traffic after that.
Pretty major concentration of transformers for electrical for the whole region.
Major industrial railyard, medium sized passenger one.
... And a whole lot of major internet undersea tunnels connect to the rest of the world, and the rest of the US, in a building in downtown Seattle, which of course also has a couple floors dedicated to every 3 letter agency you've ever heard of.
It completely makes sense for an adversary to nuke the Everett to Seattle to Tacoma area out of existence.
Could be wrong, but I believe Seattle has such a large looking symbol because it doesn't have a bunch of other ones around it. I think the size of the symbol is the same as the size of the rest of the civilian targets. Jacksonville also stood out to me at first but I think New York's is the same size.
Edit: there's two sizes for the symbols, large and small. Seattle's is the same size as Portland's.
Alright. Well see ya guys too.