08-10-2017, 02:49 PM
(08-10-2017, 02:46 PM)Benton Wrote: A friend of mine was an electrical guy for the Air Force a couple decades ago. He was trained to work on the launch systems for nukes (not the tech stuff, just the electrical components). W were talking one night and apparently there's a list of most likely targets to get hit. His base was one, DC two and the St Louis/SouthernIllinois/West KY area was third. I was really surprised, but he made some sense. Nuke the area where your major river transportation is and you cut down a lot of your ability to move manufacturing materials/food from the Midwest to the Northeast and down to major ports in the Gulf.
There is also a U-235 production facility in that region.
Edit: Was, I should say.
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