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re: For people born before 1992, how close was your hometown to a direct Soviet ICBM strike?
Posted on 3/17/21 at 4:01 am to UndercoverBryologist
Posted on 3/17/21 at 4:01 am to UndercoverBryologist
Nola has been struck and ruined, but it wasn’t the Russians.
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Posted on 3/17/21 at 5:26 am to UndercoverBryologist
Because I live fairly close to the bomb plant over in South Carolina I would have been vaporized. Which actually would have made me one of the lucky ones, I don't think the post full scale nuclear war world would have been a very pleasant place to live
Posted on 3/17/21 at 5:45 am to UndercoverBryologist
Wyoming is a ICBM missile base, FE Warren in Cheyenne.... so yeah, they have plenty of reasons
Posted on 3/17/21 at 6:08 am to cantfindausablename
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Lake Charles wasn’t the target,
Chennault Air Field and Lake Charles Port were definitely targets in Lake Charles
Posted on 3/17/21 at 6:41 am to Cap Banga
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If you’re gonna launch 500 nukes, what’s the harm with 1500 more?
They knew that they'd better keep a bunch for the Chinese.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 6:53 am to Centinel
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Born and raised in Huntsville. It was accepted that we would be fricked from day one.
Same here
Posted on 3/17/21 at 7:01 am to UndercoverBryologist
Looks like Ivan knows where our ICBMs are buried
Posted on 3/17/21 at 7:05 am to supadave3
Yes and it happens almost every day.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 7:07 am to The Boat
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Sure. Along with every other town in the top 500 in population.
That’s probably more to strike fear into people, or a means of achieving mutually assured destruction, but for any wartime scenario, pick your war in history, the main goal of achieving victory is to take out your opponents means of making war, and things like ports, bases, manufacturing, refineries, natural resources, and hubs of infrastructure are going to be very high priority targets.
BR, which has a sizable port on the most important river in the United States, and is a hub for oil and natural gas, but especially refineries, and chemical plants puts it on that list.
This post was edited on 3/17/21 at 7:09 am
Posted on 3/17/21 at 7:11 am to JCinBAMA
Between Redstone, Browns Ferry, and NASA Huntsville had to be in there somewhere.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 7:17 am to LSULaw2009
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Lake Charles wasn’t the target,
Chennault Air Field and Lake Charles Port were definitely targets in Lake Charles
I figured the refineries. That’s got to be the reason for the two nukes near Nola. Hits the shell and marathon gas plants up river.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 7:21 am to UndercoverBryologist
Pretty much direct hit, Nuclear plant 5 miles from house and NOLA 20 miles. 
Posted on 3/17/21 at 7:22 am to UndercoverBryologist
What makes you think they no longer are?
Posted on 3/17/21 at 7:24 am to LegendInMyMind
Pretty much anywhere with a large military presence.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 7:34 am to Dominate308
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Pretty much anywhere with a large military presence.
No doubt, and I’d say that after DC, first on that list would be taking out San Diego, Norfolk, and Pearl, Annapolis, Chicago, and then moving on to Ft Hood, Polk, Lejeune, etc... But don’t think Barksdale wouldn’t rank near the top either. Taking out long range bombers with massive payloads would put it near the very top.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 7:38 am to UndercoverBryologist
Well I was born in 1988 and grew up a stone's throw away from Ft. Jackson. Seems like I could've damn well been part of a strike. I was actually worried about it during the Iraq War while in High School.
This post was edited on 3/17/21 at 7:49 am
Posted on 3/17/21 at 8:37 am to The Boat
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Yep.
BR was always a first-strike objective.
It’s so weird how people want to believe their town is big time so they act like it’s target #1 for an attack.
1) Exxon - biggest aviation fuel refinery at the time
2) I-10 and US-190 bridges - cuts E-W transportation for major interstate and federal highway as well as the only crossings over the Mississippi River between Natchez, MS and Donaldsonville (Audubon Bridge wasn't built yet, but would have been taken out with the bomb hitting River Bend)
Those alone put BR on the 1st strike list.
Add to that
3) Port of Baton Rouge
4) Bauxite mounds/aluminum stockpile off N. Sherwood
This post was edited on 3/17/21 at 10:34 am
Posted on 3/17/21 at 8:44 am to blueridgeTiger
"I think Bogalusa was a prime target"
I don't see a dot. I know it was a larger city at the time
I don't see a dot. I know it was a larger city at the time
Posted on 3/17/21 at 8:46 am to UndercoverBryologist
There are 14,500 nukes on the planet. Need someone to explain this map to me.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 8:52 am to Horsemeat
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I like how North Platte, NE is target - there's literally nothing there but cows, corn, and a WalMart Distribution Center.
Bailey yard is in North Platte and is the world’s largest railroad classification yard. Hitting major transportation infrastructure.
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