Odd how this map glosses over the naval bases on both coasts which would by definition be targeted in a first strike.
Bangor, San Diego, Newport News
Scientific American has gone woke.
No longer scientific, but very un-American.
Correct.
The missiles are going to be gone by they time incoming arrives.
Bangor Maine, Seattle and San Diego is where I would target.
I do not know where this model came from other than the same "scientists" who produce global warming models. Back in the day, the canonical model was the Teledyne-Brown model, which delineated by lat-long each round that would land. It was used for planning for a nuclear war.
It looked nothing at all like this. Any more would be classified.
My house is 13 miles straight west of Offutt AFB. My college buddy Brad’s dad was a full bird colonel in the mid 80’s and was stationed there with SAC. He told us that the only two cities in the United States that had more missiles targeted at them than Bellevue Nebraska were NYC and Washington DC. This was in probably 1985 or 86 and his son and I both attended the university of Nebraska in Lincoln. I made the mistake of telling him that I was worried about getting nuked. He said not to worry, that Lincoln was a state capitol and also would have some weapons targeted on it. He said it would all be over in an instant and it wouln’t even hurt. Ask stupid questions I guess.....
They also neglected the locations of military bases and communication centers, e.g. submarine telecommunication centers (which are not located on big military bases). This is a nothing article.