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Originally Posted by Ancestor
Where was the depot in Utah? Given the canon info that Utah was the first state to basically tell the federal government to pound sand, finding (or defending) that depot could be an interesting adventure.
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Deseret Chemical Depot in Toole. In real life, they were the first of the Army's stockpile sites to begin destroying their inventory, starting in 1996. In the T2k timeline, the destruction plant might have been complete but there probably would've been reasons to delay startup - and once the war went hot, all bets were off, anyway.
The full stockpile inventory is on the third page of
this PDF. Total stockpile was around 1.1 million warheads.
Note that as the largest of the chemical weapons stockpiles, Deseret would've been first in line for a nuke in T2k. The Alabama site was at Anniston Army Depot, which probably took a bucket of sunlight too.
The other sites are Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas; Blue Grass Army Depot in central Kentucky; Umatilla Chemical Depot in Oregon; Newport Chemical Depot in Indiana; and Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado. Blue Grass also handles a lot of conventional munitions; Pine Bluff may as well.
- C.