@wellerstein Some of these identifications are tentative. But large power plants, airports, and military/DOE installations seem right.
I've been trying to decode what FEMA thought the Soviet nuclear targets in Missouri were in 1990. Some progress.pic.twitter.com/WHqj9PljSa
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@wellerstein A few potential industrial targets. I think the smaller size rings for the silos are indicating surface bursts.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein Very hard to parse out St. Louis itself — many things clustered in there. Not sure if they are assuming pop. centers targeted.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein This illustration is from FEMA-196, "Risks and Hazards: A State By State Guide," September 1990. -
@wellerstein How do you think that would compare to, say, 1950? -
@mattfarish We didn't have missile fields and the Soviets didn't have ICBMs (or even bombers that could deliver to continental USA). -
@wellerstein Of course. But that didn't stop the NSRB/FCDA etc. from thinking about targets, both general and specific.
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@wellerstein That's 158 surface bursts for the silos... a LOT of fallout would be created by that. -
@rscottkemp Ah, I love fallout maps! Where is this one from? -
@wellerstein P. Morrison & P. Walker, “A Primer of Nuclear Warfare.” In J. Dennis, The Nuclear Almanac (Addison-Wesley, 1983): 153.
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@wellerstein What's most interesting to me here is the apparent assumption that all airports, no matter how small, would be targeted. -
@wellerstein Those with big enough runways could have served as backup dispersal airports for B-52s, B-1s, and their refueling tankers. -
@AtomicAnalyst Yeah, I assumed something like that. It just feels like a wee bit of overkill to aim for the little ones. :-) -
@wellerstein Well, we reportedly targeted pastures in the USSR that could have served as landing fields.
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@wellerstein I saw a entire US map of these projections, are you working on the entire map? -
@HistoryOfPorn Eventually, maybe, but at the moment I am focused on just a few states. -
@wellerstein Which ones? -
@HistoryOfPorn Those that might be involved in my game idea:https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/678954183836491776 …
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