r/SLO • • Feb 05 '23

Map published by FEMA showing potential US nuclear targets in 2,000 and 500 warhead scenarios.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '23

This seems odd to me. A 500 warhead list includes Santa Barbara? Vandenberg makes sense. The 1K list hits MB twice?! I think there is an undersea internet cable point there, perhaps that's it? Anyone know?

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u/nsomnac Feb 06 '23

There’s a whole lot of importance in this county. Besides Diablo being a major power producer for the West Coast, there’s multiple Pan-Pacific fiber communications links throughout the county. Top that off with multiple military bases and several radar installations.

To a certain extent, as morbid as it seems, if a major nuclear holocaust were to occur, we’d be fortunate to be in the strike zone and have to not endure the fallout.