[Blackbird45]

Your born, you live, you die.
Worrying about when and how is a waste of time.

[rogerrice60]

Soon true!

[MrFlorida]

We're safe, we have the bubble over us.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Robbie0723

What are the nearest likely targets to the Villages?

All military facilities.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Ptmckiou

If you survive the many blasts, then you’ll eventually starve to death from the ash clouds circling the globe and plants not getting enough sunlight to survive. With both super powers have nukes, we would be sending many to Russia and them many to the USA. End of the planet as we know it because of the sun being diminished for years.

Governments has plan and facilities in place for the VIPs to survive for 50 minimum years. All us peon’s are expendable.

[JeffreyNJ]

Post Nuke Greens... I weep for the future!

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by nn0wheremann

So long Mom,
I’m off to drop The Bomb
So don’t wait up for me.
Just think while you swelter
Down there in your shelter,
You can see me on your TV…

Communication’s will be the first to go.

[HRDave]

Originally Posted by Robbie0723

What are the nearest likely targets to the Villages?

The nearest targets would probably be Kings Bay, GA sub base & CenCom headquarters in the Tampa area. I don’t think that the sub base would be a primary target as the subs would all be out to sea. CenCom probably would be primary as it’s Command & Control. Most likely subject to an airburst that would vaporize a 2km area, but generate minimal fallout.
The majority of fallout would be generated by ground busters hitting missile silos & hardened Command & Control centers in the upper Midwest & Western states. Airbursts are more effective on non hardened targets & generate minimal fallout.

[Petersweeney]

Originally Posted by dougawhite

This time-lapse video shows all of the thousands of nuclear bomb explosions that have occurred since 1945. I never realized so many have occurred.

https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY

Just watched the whole video - dumbstruck - literally a few thousand people took us to this point…

[kcrazorbackfan]

Originally Posted by MorTech

A nuke map with kill radius. I wouldn't worry too much about any nuke over 50mt. The USA only has a few and probably russia as well. After 50mt, you get "diminished return". Nobody has a 100mt nuke.

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

Really informative; put in the areas where we have lived.

[DPWM21]

Downwinders were individuals and communities in the intermountain area between the Cascade and Rocky Mountain ranges primarily in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah but also in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho who were exposed to radioactive contamination or nuclear fallout from atmospheric or underground nuclear weapons testing, and nuclear accidents.[1][2]

More generally, the term can also include those communities and individuals who are exposed to ionizing radiation and other emissions due to the regular production and maintenance of coal ash, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, nuclear waste and geothermal energy.[3] In regions near U.S. nuclear sites, downwinders may be exposed to releases of radioactive materials into the environment that contaminate their groundwater systems, food chains, and the air they breathe. Some downwinders may have suffered acute exposure due to their involvement in uranium mining and nuclear experimentation.[4]

Several severe adverse health effects, such as an increased incidence of cancers, thyroid diseases, CNS neoplasms, and possibly female reproductive cancers that could lead to congenital malformations have been observed in Hanford "downwind" communities exposed to nuclear fallout and radioactive contamination.[5] The impact of nuclear contamination on an individual is generally estimated as the result of the dose of radiation received and the duration of exposure, using the linear no-threshold model (LNT). Sex, age, race, culture, occupation, class, location, and simultaneous exposure to additional environmental toxins are also significant, but often overlooked, factors that contribute to the health effects on a particular "downwind" community.[6]
Source: wiki

FYI: A John Wayne movie set in Nevada, downwind, had cast and crew 30 years later with High incidence of cancers and deaths feom cancer.

[Boston1945]

Originally Posted by MrFlorida

We're safe, we have the bubble over us.

YES!!! When we purchased back in the day. We were told about the HUGE BUBBLE that comes down and protects the villages from hurricanes and any tornado that might come this way. I hope it goes for nukes.

[DaleDivine]

Originally Posted by Boston1945

YES!!! When we purchased back in the day. We were told about the HUGE BUBBLE that comes down and protects the villages from hurricanes and any tornado that might come this way. I hope it goes for nukes.

Working so far...

[MorTech]

Originally Posted by GizmoWhiskers

There doesn't need to be a nuke to take out the USA, "We the People" are doing a great job of destroying the country for the opposition already.

Yes...That's why Putin would not nuke DC...Or Brussels...Or Ottawa. They are his allies.

[MorTech]

Originally Posted by Worldseries27

since there is a strategic nuclear submarine base merely 175 miles away home to our atlantic fleet, i wouldn't count on escaping the inevitable

Pfftt...We will hardly feel a breeze