Norfolk Status: Going Home Time Frame

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From Wikipedia:

Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia. It supports naval forces in the United States Fleet Forces Command, those operating in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean. NS Norfolk, also known as the Norfolk Naval Base, occupies about four miles (6 km) of waterfront space and seven miles (11 km) of pier and wharf space of the Hampton Roads peninsula known as Sewell's Point. It is the world's largest naval station, supporting 75 ships and 134 aircraft alongside 14 piers and 11 aircraft hangars, and houses the largest concentration of U.S. Navy forces. Port Services control more than 3,100 ship movements annually.


So Norfolk is America's primary East Coast naval base and in fact its largest. In 2016 U.S. Navy ships based at Norfolk include warships attached to Carrier Strike Group Two, Eight, Ten and Twelve, Destroyer Squadron 2, 14, 22, 26 and 28, Amphibious Squadron 4, 6, 8 and Submarine Squadron 6.

Military facilities near Naval Station Norfolk include Camp Allen also in Norfolk, Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Dam Neck in Virginia Beach, St. Julien's Creek Annex in Chesapeake, Fort Eustis in Newport News, Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard facilities in Portsmouth and Yorktown, and the CIA training facility known as the "The Farm' at Camp Peary in York County. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth is also the U.S. Navy's largest industrial facility. Also there is Fort Monroe in Hampton which is a very large and now decommissioned US Army coastal artillery fort and a national monument.

Four naval carrier air wings are attached to Naval Air Station Oceana which has four runways. U.S. Navy Naval Special Warfare Group Two and Four are based at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek along with a number of naval construction and specialised units. U.S. Navy Weapon Station Yorktown is a 20.7 square mile (54 square kilometre) complex that stretches across York County, James City County, Newport News and Hampton Roads which provides extensive storage and loading facilities for U.S. Navy weapons and ammunition. Langley Air Force Base hosts the USAF 1st Fighter Wing and the Virginia Air Guard 192nd Fighter Wing. Two US Marine Corps fleet anti-terrorist security team's are based at Camp Allen, and a number of U.S. Army logistics and aviation support units are based at Fort Eustis.

Non-military run facilities in the area include Huntington-Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding who design, build and refuel U.S. Navy nuclear powered aircraft carriers, the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Norfolk International Airport and Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport. There are also numerous commercial docks and ship handling facilities and a huge amount of transport infrastructure such as railway hubs, road and rail tunnels and large bridges in the area. There are two nuclear power plants in Virginia within 30 miles of Norfolk and another one in Maryland on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay.

If this is not a priority nuclear target for the Soviet Union then I don't know what is.

However despite lobbing a 1mt warhead at Norfolk the sheer size of the facilities in the area means a lot must have survived even if the Soviets got a direct hit and I doubt they did with Norfolk and the other bases lying so close to the sea. As Task Force 34 is referred to as sailing for Norfolk then we must assume that the Norfolk area is relatively intact and under MilGov control.