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Potential nuclear target maps of all 50 US states, from FEMA in 1990. (imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

This database of US targets is fascinating and terrifying. It was put together by a former US nuclear war planner, as a hypothetical “how would I nuke the US?”.

Here’s a target selection for maximum collateral damage being run in Nuclear War Simulator :yea:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

just 104 million fatalites? thats a 68% survival rate, the stonks will live to see another day :brandon:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Found a comment from the guy who made it under an upload he made of it to reddit:

We are currently running the consequence of execution analysis on a pure-counterforce and a mixed-counterforce/countervalue attack. Actually, I believe that we'd lose 90% of the US population within a year. No power, heat, fuel. No logistics. Greatly reduced supplies of food and medicine. We're just not set up to deal with this kind of event given how our current logistics train.