Nobody's gonna waste a nuke on Detroit.....
Nobody's gonna waste a nuke on Detroit.....
Have your go bag ready if you hear anything about a major urban renewal project. I don't think bulldozers will be enough for Detroit.
The standard for Cold War planning was the Teledyne-Brown raid, modeling a Soviet attack on the U.S., involving about 6000 nuclear weapons, more or less all at once. IIRC, the Detroit area was one of the prime targets, receiving more attention than just about any place except Washington, DC. I seem to remember in excess of 100 rounds targeted against the Detroit area. 12 miles NE of Detroit would be indistinguishable from ground zero.
Detroit has been autonuked by its own government. It took about 50 years but the result is the same.