Are you near enough to a big city ...

[jaF0]

... or other target that you'll be gone in a flash?

Or will you be one of those who suffer for weeks before the sickness ultimately claims you?

There will be no survivors, so don't play that game.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

45 mins from toronto. University of waterloo is probably a target, maybe even RIM and they're 10 mins away.

 

[jaF0]

I'm too far away. On launch, I might need to get in a car and launch myself closer to somewhere.

 

[JakBird]

50 miles from Offutt AFB, home of US Strategic Air Command, so I'm not worried.

 

[MKvDeepSea]

I'm near one air force base, one army base and one national guard/air guard base. I'm about ninety miles from a joint air force and navy base with a shipyard. Am I worried? Nah.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

50 miles from Offutt AFB, home of US Strategic Air Command, so I'm not worried.

As you shouldn't. You'll be vaporized instantly.

 

[jaF0]

50 miles is too far out for instant.

 

[KeithD]

So, do we think Washington, D.C., might be a target?

It does remind me of when my mother was contemplating buying land on Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado to get away from D.C. being a target and my dad had to tell her where NORAD's operation center was located.

 

[JakBird]

As you shouldn't. You'll be vaporized instantly.

The way I see it, center of continent, maximum time for interception. Besides, can't be any worse than a tornado plowing through the middle of the house. And the rest of Nebraska wouldn't even notice if Omaha (home of Offutt) fell off the map.

Course, if the Russian Rocket Corp is in the same state of readiness as the rest of their military, they're more likely to hit Vladivostok than Omaha.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Way too close to LA, even closer to a Naval base.

 

[jaF0]

Besides, can't be any worse than a tornado plowing through the middle of the house.

Think maybe a ten mile wide EF10 or greater coupled with thousands of degrees in heat.

 

[ll74]

Used to live near a base

 

[jaF0]

It's really more incineration than vaporization. But with potential blast wave speeds of hundreds of miles an hour, you'd be blown to bits .... literally.

 

[KeithD]

When/if it ever comes to that, I want it to land right on top of my head.

 

[oggbashan]

When I was young, I had just started work in a UK naval base at the time of the Cuban missile crisis.

As the youngest officer, my task was to sit on the highest tower in the base and report where the bombs fell. I had a map table, a compass and a protractor. I was supposed to measure the distance and the height of the mushroom cloud.


Of course, it was nonsense. Any bomb aimed in that area would fall on my head, so I had to keep talking down a phone line to my superiors, miles away in an underground shelter. When I stopped talking, they would assume I was dead and not emerge until the radiation levels were safe-ish...

I was there for a practice, in charge of an evacuated naval base. That was scary.

 

[butters]

So, do we think Washington, D.C., might be a target?

It does remind me of when my mother was contemplating buying land on Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado to get away from D.C. being a target and my dad had to tell her where NORAD's operation center was located.

Camp David and The Pentagon, plus the Jim Creek Naval Radio Station head the list

Also identified by the federal gov't are Washington D.C, San Francisco, L.A, Houson, Chicago and New York as:

not only the largest and densest cities in the United States, but they also have critical infrastructures such as major financial hubs, energy plants, wireless transmission systems, and government facilities that are essential to the country's security.
Other major potential nuclear target areas include states with military, naval, and air force bases such as:

The Naval Station Norfolk- is one of the largest global naval bases, which is located in South-Eastern Virginia.

San Diego, California- It is one of the states with the largest bases for the U.S. Navy. It is also one of the Pacific fleet's major home ports

Seattle, Washington- because it hosts several navy bases. The Bangor Naval sub base "supports fleet ballistic missiles, surface ships, and other nuclear weapons.

Los Alamos National Laboratory- as the pillar of bomb design and hosts the world's most famous scientists.

Joint Base San Antonio- under the Air Force base wing jurisdiction and a joint base for Martindale Army airfield, Lackland Air Force, and U.S. Army Fort Sam Houston.

Fort Bragg- North Carolina: United States special forces and airborne forces, U.S. Army Reserve Command, and Army Forces command

Kansas City National security campus- produces approximately 85 percent of nuclear components that are used in the U.S. nuclear weapon arsenal.

Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs- a center for military communications.

Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska- headquarters for the air force weather agency and U.S. Strategic Command.

the FEMA map of likely nuclear targets lists the most active nuclear power plants in the United States, some of them below:

• Beaver Valley in McCandless, PA
• Arkansas Nuclear Russellville, AR.
• Braidwood in Joliet, IL
• Browns Ferry in Huntsville, AL
• Brunswick in Wilmington, NC
• Byron in Rockford, IL
• Oconee Nuclear Station
• Catawba in Charlotte, NC
• North Anna in Richmond, VA
• Nine Mile Point in Oswego, NY
• Palo Verde in Phoenix, AZ

https://thesurvivalgeek.com/us-nuclear-target-list/

 

[butters]

that Huntsville nuclear plant isn't so very far away as a radioactive crow flies...

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Moving out of CA this summer to a rural county in the southeast, far away from anything that might be considered a strategic target. No military bases, urban centers, research hubs, or major manufacturing facilities. If the bad guys want blow up taverns, bait shops, and hunting reserves, I’m fucked.

 

[ll74]

Where I grew up in Dayton used to be in the top 5. Not so much since downsizing and reorg

 

[Leglover1234]

60 mins from NYC
60 mins from Philly
10 minutes from a nuclear plant
30 minutes from 3 military bases
I’m fucked lol

 

[WillJ8787]

60 mins from NYC
60 mins from Philly
10 minutes from a nuclear plant
30 minutes from 3 military bases
I’m fucked lol

Ditto... Philly Burbs. I'd rather be vaporized.

 

[pecksniff]

I'm near MacDill Air Force Base, but not too near.

 

[icanhelp1]

I'm near MacDill Air Force Base, but not too near.

I would say the safest place to be is Canada, Trudeau is already a communist.

 

[Leglover1234]

Ditto... Philly Burbs. I'd rather be vaporized.

Drop that fucker right on my head

 

[pecksniff]

I would say the safest place to be is Canada, Trudeau is already a communist.

Putin isn't.