Posted on 11/15/2023 6:25:48 PM PST by algore
About 300 million people in the United States would be put at risk of death from exposure to radioactive fallout in the four days following a nuclear attack, according to a new report that models the possible effects of such a grim event.
If the US is attacked with nuclear weapons, an adversary would most likely concentrate all fire on the country's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch facilities (silos).
Any retaliatory attack from the US would come from these silos, located in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming - and taking them out would be an enemy's first priority.
This is the assumption scientists used to model the fatalities from a nuclear strike, with the 450 ICBM silos in these states serving as the epicenter.
The population density in these states is low, but winds could carry the radioactive material far and wide.
Their maps are part of a special report on the US's nuclear program published Wednesday in Scientific American.
And the results are grim: Depending on weather conditions, 90 percent of the population of the lower 48 U.S states, as well as people living in Mexico's northern states and the most populous regions of Canada, would be at risk of receiving lethal doses of radiation.
Using weather patterns recorded through 2021, scientists simulated the aftereffects of an 800-kiloton warhead hitting every one of the 450 silos at once to cripple the US arsenal. First, they mapped how wind patterns would have carried the fallout on each day of 2021.
For the map above, they recorded the worst possible outcome for each location. In this scenario, three million people living in communities around the silos would risk receiving eight grays (Gy) of radiation in the four days following the attack, resulting in certain death.
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“””If the US is attacked with nuclear weapons, an adversary would most likely concentrate all fire on the country’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch facilities (silos).”””
This is hogwash. The missiles in those silos would already be in the air going towards the attacking country. So the safest place to be in a nuclear attack would be next to an ICBM silo.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Isn’t that like, just about the entire population of the country?
I wonder if Hawaii is on the list of safe places; but then again considering that it is controlled by the DEMS, probably not.
Minus the illegals/invaders. :smirk:
That thought occurred to me as well.
That would be a really smart bomb to be able to distinguish between illegals and citizens.
450 nukes would sure solve that climate crap problem.
If you factor out all the illegal alien invaders, darn close.
Just a few EMPs and it’s lights out for North America. We’ve known about the need to harden our electrical grid for decades, yet have done NOTHING.
What part of Mutually Assured Destruction dont people get?
With Joe Biden in charge, Nothing to worry about!
once the popcorn is finished, ya got a whole 3 weeks till ya expire.
An EMP could accomplish the same thing at a much slower rate as lack of medication, disease and starvation and roving gangs killed people off.
No Nuke war—fear talk only. EMP attack is more likely. Done by a terrorist faction not a nation state. Winner, Red China.
That's a bit generous. It depends on water supplies, radiation level contamination and those roving band of thugs looking for supplies. I'm not sure how safe the fish or radioactive killed cattle would taste.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/barack-obama-nuclear-weapons-213981/
As many see Biden as Obama’s third term, is there a no launch on warning policy?
These days a highly sophisticated country could drop a nuke with no way to confirm where it came from.
What a crock of crap!
The "hysteria" crowd has been touting these same end-of-the-world prophecies since the 1950s...
Just think, back when we and the Soviets had thousands & thousands of nukes, according to these hysterics, one exchange would have exterminated about 3 billion people...
This latest hysteria says we are all (planet-wide) about 90% safer than back then...
There is now, before, and in the future only one truth... An exchange between the U.S., Russia, China, Pakistan, NK, Israel, and India will be lights out for the approximate 8 billion members of the human race...
Always has been a threat and always will be a threat...
Covid,BLM/ANTIFA,Orange Man,Mohamheads and Now NUKES !
THANKS BRANDON !
According to the idiots who came up with this trash, San Diego, home of the largest naval base on the West Coast (Naval Station San Diego), Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, MCAS Miramar and NAS North Island, would be among the safest places in the USA...
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