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I found this rather interesting. A map of where Russia had set to hit the USA with their nukes should war have broken out between us. The reason for the destruction of the Midwest is do to the vast number of nuke silos. California blast area would've been to take out our satellite connections. Rather chilling to look at, really.
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File:US nuclear strike map.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Countries with the most Nuclear Weapons
in 1985 USSR had approximately over 30,000 nuclear weapons
I've heard the third most important target on the list was Wichita because of the amount of airplanes we build. That map says otherwise :(
do you have a link to the article you got that pic on?
yeah, but they don't know where they all areQuote:
Originally Posted by mb7050
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4DDprzrrpk
Ummmm...I gave the link in my op.Quote:
Originally Posted by sketch
The fuck? Target Austin and ... Abilene?? But ignore DFW and Houston?
Bet there's some ICBM silos in Austin and Abilene. Motherland had a damn good reason for every one of those sites.Quote:
Originally Posted by AdamVR4
I wish we could see a similar map of Russia, Purple Russia.
Honestly I have a hard time believing there isn’t a dot on Knoxville. Oak Ridge (Next to Knox) has the largest stockpile of enriched uranium in the world.
You need to remember, this all may be common knowledge to us, but russia may not have known and/or acted on that intelligence when forming that map...assuming it actually is legit
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I knew the midwest would be toast due to the missile silos. Within half an hour of my house I can spot at least 4
In a way it seems silly to target silos. If they launched an attack on us there wouldn’t be anything there by the time anything of theirs got to them. Even a sub attack couldn’t reach them in time. I believe that’s why silos aren’t built on the coast.
It has also been commonly assumed the locks at Sault St. Marie would be one of the first targets.
Methinks something is slightly askew, here.
Fuck yeah I'm safe in Nevada :p
Nothing important there. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by mh3kgt
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Originally Posted by green-lantern
This is also a map from the 80's supposedly, so things that may have been considered important then are not now. Don't really know why they'd attack Maine, perhaps to strike a blow to the Red Lobster chain, but other than that... ;)
Shit would get personal Tout de Suite if the Russians take out Red Lobster. :teu42:Quote:
Originally Posted by UTRacerX9
Agreed. The missiles would not be in the silos by the time their ICBMs got here.Quote:
Originally Posted by green-lantern
The russians knew about the crazy austin ppl furthermore they wanted to prevent Rick Perry becoming Governor. They didnt have a terminator yet to send back in time to prevent his birth.Quote:
Originally Posted by AdamVR4
Bath Iron Works is in Maine, they build Navy ships.
Cant see why the Sub base I work at isnt a direct target....
Keep in mind the timeline. Was it that big considering at the time?Quote:
Originally Posted by R/T93
They have been building navy vessels for like 120 years there.
Fair enough. I guess what I'd like to find out is to what degree in comparison. For what Russia had at the time, was it a priority over their predetermined locations of impact.Quote:
Originally Posted by R/T93
Its also interesting to note that Picatinny Arsenal is right by my house in northern NJ and they develop/design 90% of our military's weaponry and bombs. And yet...russia wanted to strike south nj? what, they wanted to stop atlantic city from letting people gamble?! Or could russia predict the future and know what would come of the jersey shore and wanted to help us out? :lol:
Russia was prepared for a preemptive strike to destroy Jershey Shore... LOLOL
No one has pointed out that NYC wasn't a target either.
Large USAF base in Abilene.Quote:
Originally Posted by zelstin
after reading this brings back very scary memories of the whole very real situation people of my age and older lived through. most of you who have posted up here may not even have been born when this cold war was going on. i for one was living in a hellish fear of a total pre-emptive strike by both the russians or the Americans even the British.
each super power had hundreds 1000's of ICBM's all teetering on the actions of which IDIOT was going to strike first. and at one point it became very close to an all out nuclear war. i was in my early teens with nightmares that i had every night about the complete destruction of the world and they were very close to becoming a reality.
NOT REALLY something i wish to live through again. and i do not know to this day what started it all off? because last i heard, Britain, America and Russia were close allies and all i could understand from it was that Russia wanted to show superiority over the other two powers. i guess its what happens when you elect power hungry people into office?
Dutch will remember all this and maybe 1 or 2 more but the rest would never understand what kind of fear we actually lived in, what uncertainty our futures held at the time. reagan (possibly the best president USA had) was rubbing shoulders with Thatcher (possibly the worst PM we ever had) were in talks with Russia's new president Mikhail Gorbachev to reduce war heads. but 1982 came the closest to an all out war...
if Andropov would have been more of an idiot he was made out to be there would have been a complete nuclear retaliation there and then. based simply on a test fired missile.Quote:
November 2: Exercise Able Archer 83 — Soviet anti-aircraft misinterpret a test of NATO's nuclear warfare procedures as a fake cover for an actual NATO attack; in response, Soviet nuclear forces are put on high alert.