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 How do you think that would compare to, say, 1950?
@mattfarish And the Soviets had almost no weapons. So if they were going to target anything, would be big cities.
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@wellerstein It's still "what FEMA [or the FCDA] _thought_." Big guesswork, esp. in 50s. And yet: a site like Fairfax would be in both maps. -
@mattfarish The estimates I've seen from the 1950s generally assume USSR would have to target cities b/c of lack of accuracy & # of weapons.
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