Is your hometown nuke-worthy? In other words, does it have any strategic value that bad guys would lob a missle at it.

My town is getting nuked by default from being so close to D.C.

 

  San Diego, California is a city with an extremely large military “footprint”; US Navy and US Marine Corps installations. Putin will most likely want to wipe it off the map as Job One of his assault on the United States.

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It depends on if they updated their target list after the Trojan Nuclear Plant was decommissioned and dismantled.

Of course, I'm also about halfway between Astoria, OR at the mouth of the Columbia River - and Portland, OR / Vancouver, WA.

As I've said in the past, if the birds fly I hope I'm close enough to die instantly.

No not a nuclear target. Closest one is several hours away. 

Maybe if the rumors about the Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test Range are true. Rumor is 20 years ago the Canadian Forces recovered a crashed UFO and they hide it at the Nanoose Bay base. They have been working on it and figuring out how it works and it is probably fully functional by now. So maybe Putin heard the rumors and looks at it as a threat. We are also pretty close to Seattle and they are likely a target so we would probably get radiation poisoning. I haven't worried about going through a nuclear war since the 90s seems horrible that I have to start worrying about it again.  Cheers! This post was edited by Nanoose at March 31, 2022 5:57 PM MDT

My hometown is not nuke-worthy, but the city where I live is nuke-worthy. It's the national capital, the country's largest city and it has a military footprint.

Both my native town and the one in which have lived for the past sixty-odd years are within only a few miles of potential targets.

My first place was less than ten miles from an important Royal Navy base. I live now a similar distance from a harbour that used to be RN but is now commercial, and not very far from Army training ranges, so still close to possible strategic targets. Of the nearest regional civil airports, the closest is only about forty miles away; as is a military one.

Those distances are uncomfortably low for a high-power nuclear weapon (I refuse to use that horrible slang word, 'nuke'), although it would need only some tens of kilotonnes power to destroy any such target.

However, even living many tens of miles from a possible target would be a bit academic in a full-scale nuclear war as envisaged in the Cold War era.  We might be unaffected by the explosions themselves but could be in the path of their direct radiation and radio-active fall-out, and all the utilities, trades and services upon which we all depend would likely be destroyed.

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Someone elsewhere once showed me a photograph of a curious "housing estate" of little concrete bunkers spoiling a patch of the Dakota countryside. These have been built by "survivalists" as bolt-holes from any all-out war or other apocalypse they fear - but I don't suppose they have thought about what they might emerge into, and how they might continue to "survive" that!