• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      towns over a certain size will get nuked

      I mean yeah, that’s the point of nuclear warfare. Kill everyone so your enemy can never justify saying “Well it’s not going to be that bad”.

    • RoabeArt [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      2 years ago

      Military bases, missile silos (which is why there are a shit ton of dots in states like Missouri and the Dakotas), airports, steel mills, chemical plants and it looks like even vehicle assembly plants.

      I’m in Ohio and I can tell that one of those dots is directly on top of the huge General Motors assembly facility in Lordstown (which recently closed). I guess anything that could be repurposed to build and support war machines was considered as a potential target.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      It seems to be exactly that. I don’t know what Santa Fe’s population was in 1990 but my hunch is was just over 50,000. When I checked the New Mexico map - sure enough Santa Fe is a target.

      Santa Fe was (and still is) a tourist town. As far as I know - it has zero military or strategic value. The only thing that existed (and exists) here in vast amounts is very bad western art.

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        2 years ago

        Probably a bunch of military people working at Los Alamos who live in Santa Fe. Pretty sure Los Alamos will be cratered

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          2 years ago

          I only glanced at the NM map for a couple seconds. I don’t know if Los Alamos was a target. If targets are crudely based (on population, nukes, military bases, etc) - the answer is probably “no”. Los Alamos has a very small population.