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Nuclear war in the US would wipe out 300 MILLION: New models reveal the 'devastating' impact of radioactive fallout from an attack on America's missile launch facilities
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Posted on 11/15/2023 6:25:48 PM PST by algore

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“””If the US is attacked with nuclear weapons, an adversary would most likely concentrate all fire on the country’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch facilities (silos).”””


This is hogwash. The missiles in those silos would already be in the air going towards the attacking country. So the safest place to be in a nuclear attack would be next to an ICBM silo.


21 posted on 11/15/2023 6:43:08 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: CatOwner

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb


22 posted on 11/15/2023 6:43:57 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: algore

Isn’t that like, just about the entire population of the country?


23 posted on 11/15/2023 6:44:14 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: algore

I wonder if Hawaii is on the list of safe places; but then again considering that it is controlled by the DEMS, probably not.


24 posted on 11/15/2023 6:44:22 PM PST by Jean2
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Isn’t that like, just about the entire population of the country?

Minus the illegals/invaders. :smirk:

25 posted on 11/15/2023 6:45:36 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: CatOwner

That thought occurred to me as well.

That would be a really smart bomb to be able to distinguish between illegals and citizens.


26 posted on 11/15/2023 6:49:31 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Sacajaweau

450 nukes would sure solve that climate crap problem.


27 posted on 11/15/2023 6:57:44 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: metmom

If you factor out all the illegal alien invaders, darn close.


28 posted on 11/15/2023 6:59:27 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: algore

Just a few EMPs and it’s lights out for North America. We’ve known about the need to harden our electrical grid for decades, yet have done NOTHING.


29 posted on 11/15/2023 6:59:32 PM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: algore

What part of Mutually Assured Destruction dont people get?


30 posted on 11/15/2023 7:01:17 PM PST by know.your.why (<>)
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To: know.your.why

With Joe Biden in charge, Nothing to worry about!


31 posted on 11/15/2023 7:06:46 PM PST by learner
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To: algore

once the popcorn is finished, ya got a whole 3 weeks till ya expire.


32 posted on 11/15/2023 7:15:39 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: algore

An EMP could accomplish the same thing at a much slower rate as lack of medication, disease and starvation and roving gangs killed people off.


33 posted on 11/15/2023 7:16:02 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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No Nuke war—fear talk only. EMP attack is more likely. Done by a terrorist faction not a nation state. Winner, Red China.


34 posted on 11/15/2023 7:20:58 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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ya got a whole 3 weeks till ya expire.

That's a bit generous. It depends on water supplies, radiation level contamination and those roving band of thugs looking for supplies. I'm not sure how safe the fish or radioactive killed cattle would taste.

35 posted on 11/15/2023 7:30:47 PM PST by BipolarBob (My terrorist policy is Pro Death.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/barack-obama-nuclear-weapons-213981/

As many see Biden as Obama’s third term, is there a no launch on warning policy?


36 posted on 11/15/2023 7:31:13 PM PST by buckalfa (Gut feelings are your guardian angels)
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To: algore

These days a highly sophisticated country could drop a nuke with no way to confirm where it came from.


37 posted on 11/15/2023 7:38:55 PM PST by Revel
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To: algore
"... New models reveal the..."

What a crock of crap!
The "hysteria" crowd has been touting these same end-of-the-world prophecies since the 1950s...

Just think, back when we and the Soviets had thousands & thousands of nukes, according to these hysterics, one exchange would have exterminated about 3 billion people...

This latest hysteria says we are all (planet-wide) about 90% safer than back then...

There is now, before, and in the future only one truth... An exchange between the U.S., Russia, China, Pakistan, NK, Israel, and India will be lights out for the approximate 8 billion members of the human race...
Always has been a threat and always will be a threat...

38 posted on 11/15/2023 7:45:51 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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Covid,BLM/ANTIFA,Orange Man,Mohamheads and Now NUKES !
THANKS BRANDON !


39 posted on 11/15/2023 7:47:35 PM PST by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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According to the idiots who came up with this trash, San Diego, home of the largest naval base on the West Coast (Naval Station San Diego), Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, MCAS Miramar and NAS North Island, would be among the safest places in the USA...


40 posted on 11/15/2023 7:56:23 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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