Six US Cities most likely to be nuked first
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ManualF150
.308 Win
They keep talking about it... like they want it to happen. 
Generally speaking, if they are talking about it a little bit publicly, something must be "up".
Kind of like COVID was in the news back when it first started in China, way before it even hit the US/rest of the world. No one was really paying much attention.
Generally speaking, if they are talking about it a little bit publicly, something must be "up".
Kind of like COVID was in the news back when it first started in China, way before it even hit the US/rest of the world. No one was really paying much attention.
The fallout and supply chain disruptions would get us all anyways.
Why would the enemy hit the cities where most are unarmed, stupid, and Communist ?
ArmedCorgi
.475 A&M Magnum
What is the site that lets you see what different nuke blasts would do to your area?
They do want it to happen. Could you imagine the orgy they would have with that kind of destruction? Absolutely sickening.They keep talking about it... like they want it to happen.
Generally speaking, if they are talking about it a little bit publicly, something must be "up".
Kind of like COVID was in the news back when it first started in China, way before it even hit the US/rest of the world. No one was really paying much attention.
The rest of us that would fight back are spread too far apart to hit with a few nukes.
Truebeliever
6.5 Creedmoor
The death toll would only be part of the problem. A fictional book Warday is one of a limited nuclear exchange.
The economic damage alone would split the country as regional governments would fight ( not necessarily physically fight) for the remaining resources .
The economic damage alone would split the country as regional governments would fight ( not necessarily physically fight) for the remaining resources .
Karpteach
6.5 Creedmoor
I feel thats all Bullshit. i think that military bases will get hit first. They will let the fallout kill the rest of us.
For any and all interested in how the Nuke attacks will affect you, check out this site. Pretty good info to play around with.
nuclearsecrecy.com
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.
nuclearsecrecy.com
spat
.950 JDJ
And the winner for a terrorist attack with a single nuke and no sophisticated delivery method is to float it up the Potomac.For any and all interested in how the Nuke attacks will affect you, check out this site. Pretty good info to play around with.
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.
Get DC directly, with enough fallout to render most of the big cities in the northeast uninhabitable for years.
If Buffalo were to be hit with Russia's 2nd largest bomb....
Fallout radiation decays relatively quickly with time. Most areas become fairly safe for travel and decontamination after three to five weeks.
wizrd
6.5 Creedmoor
Hiding under a school desk will fully protect you. That's what they told us back in the 50's.
If we're being nuked. The better question is which cities don't get nuked
Run the simulation with a topol 800kt those are their most common warheads. It's interesting to see how far away you have to be. And that's also assuming Russia hit exactly what they are aiming for. If they are off 5 miles the blast radius will shift accordingly as well
spat
.950 JDJ
Depends on the type of blast.
A surface blast will produce drastically more fallout than the airburst the military would use (but considerably less immediate damage).
Also, "safe for travel" is not safe to live in 24/7.
You could certainly travel *through* NYC pretty safely only a few days after. But to get the radiation down to levels that would be considered acceptable to live there would take much longer.
Areas around Chernobyl are still not considered inhabitable today, and that was *not* a ground burst nuclear explosion.
ArmedCorgi
.475 A&M Magnum
Thank you. That was the website I was looking for.For any and all interested in how the Nuke attacks will affect you, check out this site. Pretty good info to play around with.
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.
I play around with it regularly for places that I want to move to.
It is coming....
ArmedCorgi
.475 A&M Magnum
Looks like I'm fucked, lol.
99cummins
.308 Win
Other than the nuclear fallout issues, anyone else not terribly upset about the possibility of loosing those cities?
spat
.950 JDJ
A nuke detonated at ground level would be much worse for fallout.
The dirt that gets caught in the initial fireball gets blasted with enough neutron radiation that large amounts of it get transmuted into radioactive elements and lofted into the stratosphere.
There wasn't much fallout in Hiroshima or Nagasaki because they were airbursts and the fireball never touched the ground (the damage was from the flash and concussion, not the fireball)
We had to stop above ground nuclear testing in Nevada because we were irradiation half the state.
When we moved to the pacific for the big tests we irradiated fishermen 150km away.
Fallout settled up to 280 miles away over the next few days.
And while the intensity of radiation drops rapidly, within a few weeks you can walk around unprotected, but for a few minutes or hours.
To get where you can live there 24/7 takes a very very long time.
If you followed today's EPA rules after an explosion like that you would probably have yo bulldoze several entire cities and dispose of them as low level waste.
Pacific Proving Grounds - Wikipedia
Yes.
The majority of surface bursts which generate the most fallout are expected to hit the Dakota's Montana and Wyoming to take out our missile silos.
The rest of the non hardened targets like cities, interstate junctions, railyards, military bases will likely be air bursts ( much less radiation)
I think the point was just that nuclear war is more survivable (if you survive the initial blast) than the majority of the people have been led to believe. If you survive the first month your greatest threat is the breakdown of society and starving.
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
50 national guard will solve everything
MothMan
.338 Win Mag
Been living under the cloud all my life. 
FYI
www.cancer.gov
FYI
I-131 Radiation Exposure from Fallout
Discusses radioactive fallout from the nuclear weapons testing that occurred from the mid-1940s through the early 1960s and possible health risks, particularly thyroid cancer.
www.cancer.gov
In east TN, there are likely more but the targets that I have identified are
Oak ridge national laboratory
Knoxville
Chattanooga
The Eastman chemical plant in kingsport
I'm sure there are more. There are many power plants, TVA facilities etc in the area.
You're right. If the weather wasn't miserable and it was in a better state it would be near ideal to make a homestead.
Look at a satellite map of nighttime lights, it's one of the darkest areas east of the Mississippi. There isn't much there worth targeting
Jmac00
.475 A&M Magnum
nailed it, Military will get hit first, along with communication, then major populations.
But lets not forget, we will be hitting back. if it comes to nukes, the planet if fucked