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For people born before 1992, how close was your hometown to a direct Soviet ICBM strike?

Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:46 pm
Posted by UndercoverBryologist
Member since Nov 2020
8077 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:46 pm


Purple is a 500 warhead strike scenario.

Black dot is 2000 warhead strike scenario.

Apparently, my small podunk hometown was ground zero for a strike.
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
Member since Oct 2011
75703 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:47 pm to
Mais is dat da Henry Hub I see der?
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51296 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:48 pm to
quote:

ground zero for a strike.


Exactly where I'd want to be. Quick and over in an instant.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
43341 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:48 pm to
Born and raised in Huntsville. It was accepted that we would be fricked from day one.
Posted by Dirk Dawgler
Where I Am
Member since Nov 2011
2491 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:48 pm to
12 miles
Posted by WhuckFistle
Member since Jul 2015
3008 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:49 pm to
Well looks like Little Rock was well covered.
Hell I probably wouldn’t even be here if the Titan II would’ve somehow blown up.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
22181 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:49 pm to
Direct hit in the 2000 warhead scenario. About 40 or 50 miles out in the 500 one.
Posted by Cap Banga
Member since Mar 2021
111 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:49 pm to
If you’re gonna launch 500 nukes, what’s the harm with 1500 more?
Posted by Thecoz
Member since Dec 2018
2540 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:49 pm to
barksdale ...bossier city
SAC headquarters...lived just off base ...we knew there was no where to run....
Posted by Titus Pullo
MTDGA
Member since Feb 2011
28567 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:49 pm to
Seems like a lot of unnecessary nukes.
Posted by Shiftyplus1
Regret nothing that made you smile
Member since Oct 2005
13355 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:50 pm to
I really thought Nevada had more silos than that? I would have thought there would be multiple targets for the Russians.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
95755 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:50 pm to
What are the targets under the big masses of black dots? Clusters of ICBM silos?

I know that North Dakota had them, less sure about Colorado / Wyoming / Nebraska border.


As far as the black dots go just above BR, I'm assuming that is Riverbend Nuclear.
Posted by White Roach
Member since Apr 2009
9457 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:50 pm to
The Exxon refinery in BR was always a major target.
Posted by UndercoverBryologist
Member since Nov 2020
8077 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:50 pm to
What did Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming ever do to anyone?
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51296 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:50 pm to
You can tell where our missile silos are pretty easily on that map.
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
25677 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:50 pm to
A 500 warhead attack target right over it and another 20 miles away.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98195 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:51 pm to
We were directly downwind from Barksdale. Not close enough for any blast effect, but we would have gotten a big dose of fallout.
Posted by MISSOURI WALTZ
Wolf Island, MO
Member since Feb 2016
747 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:51 pm to
Do you see the easternmost county in Missouri? I'd say we were damn close. During the Cuban missile crises our schools were sandbagged and all of us had to get notes signed by our parents stating what to do in case of a nuclear attack - either stay at school or hot foot it home. I was to run to my grandparents' basement one-half block away.
Posted by Vols&Shaft83
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Member since Dec 2012
69917 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:51 pm to
Sarasota, Florida


So....I would have been fricked
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
54340 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 7:52 pm to
quote:

Born and raised in Huntsville. It was accepted that we would be fricked from day one.


No shite. Then, add in a nuclear plant and numerous chemical plants within spitting distance and we were properly fricked.
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