re: Map of Potential US Nuclear Strike Targets

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The clusters of black are where our warheads are. The best place to go due to resources, etc, is southcentral Utah. There is a natural buffer zone there. Nothing around for hundreds of miles in all directions.

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So what you're saying is, the polygamists win.

we gone need undercover brother because the KFC bomb aint on dat map!

When I hear that the nuclear strike is going to hit the D.C. area I am going to the top of the Washington Monument. That way, when we get to Heaven and ask people if they saw it, I'll be able to say that I did.

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My best guess is that it's either a port or part of the electrical grid.

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Grand Gulf is right across the river but it looks like the dot is in tensas not port gibsone. Maybe putin just wants to kill a bigass whitetail.

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How do the Commies know this?

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They don't. That looks like the Pentagon came up with the target list, and I would assume they did it by asking "What would we hit if we were the other side?"

Lafayette on the 500 missile list?

I suppose this is really because of the old Henry Gas Plant was on the high priority target list because of all of the offshore pipelines that run through the plant

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They don't. That looks like the Pentagon came up with the target list, and I would assume they did it by asking "What would we hit if we were the other side?"

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oh shat that is the storyline for this

In nuclear strategy there is a concept of counter force vs counter value. Counter force is striking your opponents military targets, other nuclear forces, armies, air forces, fleets. In counter value you hit targets of political value, cities. The first supposes that nuclear weapons are like regular weapons and should be used to help win the war. The second strategy views that nuclear war is un-winable and therefore you need to coerce your enemy that you will hit his cities and deter war, but to do this the threat has to be credible. This is really an American concept of nuclear war and it remains to be seen if the Soviets/Russians really thought or think in those terms.

Not to be cynical but it looks like the map was produced by FEMA and from a budgetary perspective you assume that the scenario that is more useful for them is counter value.

I'm guessing those dots upriver from BR are River Bend and Big Cajun?