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Originally Posted by Tegyrius
Using Nukemap to put a 3MT ground burst on top of Stargate Command, it looks like Schriever was outside the light blast damage and third-degree burn radii. However, any winds out of the west would have put it under significant fallout. Fort Carson and a good chunk of Colorado Springs would've been flat or on fire, and anything still standing would've been subject to the same fallout considerations, so there goes any of your trained workforce who weren't on base at the time of the attack (or who abandoned their posts to find their families). There's also the possibility of EMP zorching any non-hardened equipment, including the ground station antennas. So, yeah, by 2000, there may be a fenceline and some buildings still there, but I'd have a hard time saying Schriever AFB retained any operational status once Cheyenne Mountain was subjected to nonconsensual landscaping.
(This leaves aside the broader issue of Colorado Springs being sufficiently salvageable to serve as the Joint Chiefs' capital even once the radiation decays enough for safe long-term habitation.)
- C. |
Given that T2K puts Colorado Springs as the capitol of MilGov, has Cheyenne Mountain / NORAD still largely intact, and Fort Carson operational, I would uh, recommend moving ground zero for the 3 MT blast several (~10) km to the west / southwest. Otherwise most of the Fort Carson base infrastructure and a fair amount of Colorado Springs itself gets flattened. Also, a 3 MT warhead will excavate a ~980 meter radius crater. It's unlikely that Cheyenne Mountain - or least it's occupants - would survive a direct hit (ground shock, if nothing else, would kill them).