Driving by ground zeros near you....

[stg58fal]

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones. The nearest target to me is Malstom AFB, at 200+ miles I think. And on the other side of several mountain ranges.

[Webstral]

I drive by the Richmond petroleum facilities on a regular basis. I drive by the other ones on the list periodically. I think about the radiation, heat, and shock wave crossing the Bay and hitting southern Marin. Mill Valley is shielded by Tiburon and Belvedere, provided the blast epicenter is suitably low for hitting the Richmond site.

[Rainbow Six]

I live in the centre of Aberdeen so I'm royally stuffed. In the autumn of 97 I was living in Edinburgh so probably stuffed there as well. Growing up I lived about three miles from the Royal Navy base at Rosyth and RAF Pitreavie Castle (HQ for NATO North Atlantic air and naval forces during the Cold War) so probably stuffed there as well if anything had kicked off during the seventies or eighties.

Lucky white heather...

[dragoon500ly]

Spend waaaay too much time at target one...Washington DC and the Pentagon.

I think I can safely say that I will be part of that glassey plain!

[raketenjagdpanzer]

I guess it depends on the point of view of the TDM strike map as to whether or not the "above 1mt only" means only the 1mt+ targets were hit, or they're only bothering to show 1mt+ targets.

'cause honestly I can't see the Soviets letting Orlando get off without pasting MCO a couple of times. In T2k, if you take it as canon that there was no ODS/Gulf War, and the Cold War was still in full swing, the BRAC probably would've left the US Navy Nuclear Power School at the NTC open, which means a huge Navy base in downtown Orlando.

Plus, again, MCO* which was a B52 base during the Vietnam war.

That being said with where I lived in 1997, assuming a pair of 500kt, one aimed at downtown (airburst) and a ground-burst aimed at the airport runways...let's see...

Ground burst at MCO

and

Ground burst at NTC Orlando

Both "miss" the neighborhood I lived in in Altamonte Springs, but it hardly matters. Nuclear explosion dangers such as shockwaves, thermal pulse etc. don't stop at cookie-cutter lines...so...yeah, I'd be dead. If not I'd seriously consider taking my own life at that juncture.

...

*=it is NOT "OIA" it will never be OIA, that is a frustrating mistake people continue to make...it is M. C. O.

[Adm.Lee]

Depends which one of several secondary or tertiary targets in Columbus the Soviets might want to erase, none of which are on the T2k target list. I live in the northern suburbs, so if the most immediate target was the ANG tankers and A-7s south of the city, I'd be in flash & fallout zones, 15+ miles out.

[mikeo80]

I work on Fort Bragg. I know that per "canon" the 82nd, 18th airborn corps, SF and Rangers are already in the field when the nukes start to fly. Also the C-130's at Pope are probably long gone.

However...

I can imagine a "small" nuke being depostied in the T2K universe. Say 250 KT.

In the Morrow Project Universe, Fort Bragg catches a SS-N-8 from a Russian Boomer. That is a 2 MT wake up call. Per TM 1-1, the light damage radius from such an "event" is 9.6 KM. Or about 6 Miles. I live 8 miles from Fort Bragg.

So......

IF I am at work, I will transition from here to what ever happens next without even knowing what happened.

IF I am home, there is at least the possibility of survival.

Lucky me?

My $0.02

Mike

[ArmySGT.]

I have a nice view of Cheyenne Mountain from my backyard.

I would be toast.

[Grimace]

Originally Posted by stg58fal

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones. The nearest target to me is Malstom AFB, at 200+ miles I think. And on the other side of several mountain ranges.

I'm a bit closer to the same target. About 95 miles for me. Granted there's a fair bit hilly terrain between me and the blast zone. As long as it wasn't nuked in winter, I'd be okay from fallout. The winds prevail from the south and west most of the year (except winter, when they come from the north and east...the direction of Malmstrom).

[TrailerParkJawa]

I'm glad I'm not the only person who has a grim thought or two!