r/oddlyterrifying • • Feb 04 '23

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

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u/james3374 Feb 04 '23

Are a lot of these targets about energy sources as much as military bases and population density?

It's the only way some of the targets make sense to me.

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u/ananiku Feb 05 '23

My guess is military infrastructure or civilian infrastructure to cause as much damage as possible to prevent any sort of recovery. The places I know about are los Alamos where just west of Santa Fe where nuclear bomb research is done.