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Originally Posted by Targan
I actually like the idea of some strikes not making any sense. If the Soviets' targeting systems were as notoriously unreliable as commonly mentioned, it wouldn't be unusual to see occasional nuke strikes on locations that defy logic.
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I fully agree, but what is vexing is that when they are describing the nature of the strikes they list those as being related to Oil Refining and Storage. If they put something like overshot or targeting error it would make more sense.
The Lemont and Robinson strikes are not the same size as any other in TX (0.75MT). It is a very odd size overall when you look at the strikes on the US as there are only 7 covering an area from Deleware to California so it is hard to write it off as a MIRV error.
I don't know if the Soviets had any MIRVs with 3 -5 warheads of that size (0.75 MT) but if they did there is a strike in Louisiana which I guess could be part of the same package.