Have we played with this yet? Nukemap...

[Totem Polar]

Go ahead kids, try your hometown:

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

[Bigguy]

Well, if the Chinese drop their biggest on the closest military target to my house, I'm in trouble.

http://www.guywheatley.com/photos/NUKEMAP.jpg (http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=5000&lat=33.4325747&lng=-94.2948806&hob_opt=1&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=17519&ff=50&zm=10)

[SecondsCount]

That was interesting.

The way I see it, if an enemy dropped a bomb on three or four of the largest cities in the US, we would be screwed. Not immediate death maybe but life would change dramatically for the worse.

[5pins]

Well I know how I’m wasting the rest of my day.

[Tamara]

Well, if the Chinese drop their biggest on the closest military target to my house, I'm in trouble.

It's interesting to see what people pick first. My first choice was "crude terrorist device" on the most likely nearby target for such...

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/Tamara_Keel/bomb_zps010f690f.jpg (http://s1374.photobucket.com/user/Tamara_Keel/media/bomb_zps010f690f.jpg.html)

[T.Stahl]

Well, Tam, mine was a 10kt device centered on EUCOM on the other side of Stuttgart.

But what's the size of the CND the Soviets have planted beneath it?

[ssb]

If you try really hard while nuking Newfoundland, you can hit Iceland with the fallout.

[Slavex]

Anyone else having trouble with setting height for air detonation?

[Totem Polar]

It's interesting to see what people pick first. My first choice was "crude terrorist device" on the most likely nearby target for such...


Oyea... I did the crude terror thng on the best targets in the cities I find myself in regularly. I'm happy to say that being really cheap helps here: my choice of hotels are usually far enough outside the center to avoid becoming a permanent shadow at detonation. :D

[Wondering Beard]

It's interesting to see what people pick first. My first choice was "crude terrorist device" on the most likely nearby target for such...

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/Tamara_Keel/bomb_zps010f690f.jpg (http://s1374.photobucket.com/user/Tamara_Keel/media/bomb_zps010f690f.jpg.html)

Yup, did the same.

[PPGMD]

Living near CENTOM/SOCOM means I probably wouldn't survive a nuclear war. And I am not sure I would want to.

[Bigguy]

It's interesting to see what people pick first. My first choice was "crude terrorist device" on the most likely nearby target for such...


;) I questioned my choice as well. You're scenario is more likely, but I grew up in the 60's. In fact I spent some of my formative years in Oberammergau Germany, during the hottest years of the cold war. I guess when I hear nuke, my ground state is strategic.

[Tamara]

;) I questioned my choice as well. You're scenario is more likely, but I grew up in the 60's. In fact I spent some of my formative years in Oberammergau Germany, during the hottest years of the cold war. I guess when I hear nuke, my ground state is strategic.

Oh, I grok what you're saying. Most of my first couple decades were spent in the 8-ring of Lockheed/Dobbins... :eek:

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/Tamara_Keel/bomb2_zpsc6302862.jpg (http://s1374.photobucket.com/user/Tamara_Keel/media/bomb2_zpsc6302862.jpg.html)

[ranger]

Oh, I grok what you're saying. Most of my first couple decades were spent in the 8-ring of Lockheed/Dobbins... :eek:

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/Tamara_Keel/bomb2_zpsc6302862.jpg (http://s1374.photobucket.com/user/Tamara_Keel/media/bomb2_zpsc6302862.jpg.html)

No reason to pick on Lockheed-DARB complex. F22 production line shut down. But, I choose to live in the suburbs north of Atlanta; of course, I have a bigger chance getting hurt-killed in the daily commute than a nuke.

[Tamara]

No reason to pick on Lockheed-DARB complex. F22 production line shut down.

Ah-hahahahahaha!

You flatter me, sir!

The first flight of the YF-22 prototype was more than a decade in the future when Younger Me was having these worries. ;)

EDIT: When I was in middle school and high school, a local landmark on S. Cobb Drive was the row of C-130s out behind the Lockheed plant that were painted in Libyan colors but couldn't be delivered since Ghaddafi had decided to call himself a socialist...

[miller_man]

I feel like I just went up a notch with NSA just for clicking that link. You guys are screwed.

[PPGMD]

Ah-hahahahahaha!

You flatter me, sir!

The first flight of the YF-22 prototype was more than a decade in the future when Younger Me was having these worries. ;)

I also don't think that it would've been a first strike target.

As with exception of ones awaiting flight testing, none of them would be ready in time to participate in a Global Thermonuclear War game. And a half a dozen F-22s won't make a difference when ICBMs and SLBMs are flying.

[Tamara]

I also don't think that it would've been a first strike target.

As with exception of ones awaiting flight testing, none of them would be ready in time to participate in a Global Thermonuclear War game. And a half a dozen F-22s won't make a difference when ICBMs and SLBMs are flying.

Let me try re-phrasing this:

When you're ten years old, you think the Commies are going to nuke the Air Force base (which was operating F-105G Wild Weasels) and the airplane factory (building C-5Bs) down the road. I wasn't worrying about them nuking F-22s, because F-22s wouldn't exist for nearly twenty more years. At the time, we thought the "Stealth Fighter" was the "F-19" and looked like this (https://www.vintagetoysillustrated.com/2013/vintage-toys-for-sale/september/TESTORS_AIRCRAFT_PLASTIC_MODEL_KIT_F-19_STEALTH_FIGHTER_PLANE_595.JPG).

[PPGMD]

At the time, we thought the "Stealth Fighter" was the "F-19" and looked like this (https://www.vintagetoysillustrated.com/2013/vintage-toys-for-sale/september/TESTORS_AIRCRAFT_PLASTIC_MODEL_KIT_F-19_STEALTH_FIGHTER_PLANE_595.JPG).

Hey I had one of those as a kid.

[Tamara]

Hey I had one of those as a kid.

Yeah, me too.

[ranger]

Let me try re-phrasing this:

When you're ten years old, you think the Commies are going to nuke the Air Force base (which was operating F-105G Wild Weasels) and the airplane factory (building C-5Bs) down the road. I wasn't worrying about them nuking F-22s, because F-22s wouldn't exist for nearly twenty more years. At the time, we thought the "Stealth Fighter" was the "F-19" and looked like this (https://www.vintagetoysillustrated.com/2013/vintage-toys-for-sale/september/TESTORS_AIRCRAFT_PLASTIC_MODEL_KIT_F-19_STEALTH_FIGHTER_PLANE_595.JPG).

I got married at Dobbins Air Reserve Base (many years ago)next to the flight line and they had moved into the F4 "Wild Weasel" platform. My buddy was a USAF fighter pilot and he kept telling me "just say the word and I can get you hundreds of miles away in one of those F4s" - wife was not amused.

[GJM]

Ranger, clear your in box.

[ranger]

Thanks - done!

[LHS]

Interesting. Ye Olde Terrorist Nuke doesn't do much unless it's within spitting distance of my house. Even Fat Man doesn't really cause tremendous damage outside a fairly localized scale. Tsar Bomba, however, eradicates pretty much the entire Phoenix metro area.

[Drang]

At the time, we thought the "Stealth Fighter" was the "F-19" and looked like this (https://www.vintagetoysillustrated.com/2013/vintage-toys-for-sale/september/TESTORS_AIRCRAFT_PLASTIC_MODEL_KIT_F-19_STEALTH_FIGHTER_PLANE_595.JPG).


Hey I had one of those as a kid.


Yeah, me too.

Damn kids, get off my lawn! I was already a SSG when those came out...

Ahem.
Well, I'd've surv^h^h^h^ been outside the fireball, based on a Sov "Cuban Missile Crisis era" nuke on zip code 48243...

[JTQ]

When you're ten years old, you think the Commies are going to nuke the Air Force base
When you're 30, and sitting in the Alert facility, you have the same thoughts. Of course our plan was always to be on our way to return the favor before their stuff arrived.

The courtyard at the Pentagon is affectionately known as Ground Zero.

[Wondering Beard]

I wonder how the local topology affects things.

For example, in my case, I'm on a reverse slope from what would be the major local targets.