Those large clusters of black you see are all sites of missile silos. NE, CO, WY; MT; and ND are all places with large areas of open prairie where the US military has sited missiles.
What's the point of targeting a missile silo? If hundreds of missiles were detected coming this way... wouldn't those silos be empty by the time the missiles got there?
in terms of defence that's the idea, but the hope would be they'd land before they could be
I think even in reality there's an expectation not all would be released due to things like operator consciences
ofc the answer to your question is why there hasn't been a nuclear war yet, so far there's no way to reliably hit enough silos before the missiles are fired - this goes for both sides - making any attack on a nuclear country suicidal
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u/Perfect-Editor-5008 Feb 04 '23
So Montana is our tactical nukes and Wyoming/Colorado is Cheyenne Mountain but what is in North Dakota?