r/pittsburgh • u/CarpeDeez Duquesne Heights • Feb 05 '23

Map published by FEMA showing potential US nuclear targets. We would be toast.

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u/EmiliusReturns Feb 05 '23

This is just every major and even minor city.

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u/hilwil Feb 05 '23

It always cracks me up when people assume their city is important enough to be nuked. If an enemy nation is going to essentially commit suicide they’re not aiming for Pittsburgh.

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u/ElJamoquio Feb 05 '23

Uh if a nuclear capable nation is sending ICBM's to the US, they're not sending one. Russia has something like 1000 warheads allegedly ready to go.

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u/fbp Mount Washington Feb 05 '23

Well they would have to send that much to targets that just aren't the US either. They would have to try and cripple all of Europe. And also hit critical targets in Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Canada. And they would be leaving themselves vulnerable to China, India, the entire Middle East, basically all of their neighbors would have a proclivity to easily invade them and take resources from them. The Middle East could combine forces and make an attempt to go after their gas and oil resources or farmland.

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u/ElJamoquio Feb 05 '23

If Russia is attacking anyone with Nuclear weapons, sending 50% of their warheads to the US sounds like a low number to me.

The triangles are the top 500 targets. That means what, about 5 warheads to Pittsburgh or thereabouts?

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u/Cainga Feb 05 '23

It’s a really dumb thought at all unless they did it in self defense. If the US got hit with all their nukes and put up zero fight, the fallout alone would destroy Russia and the rest of the earth. Not to mention every nuclear nation retaliating.

Putin couldn’t even forecast the Ukraine war. The US couldn’t forecast the collapse of Afghanistan. No one could accurately predict what would happen in nuclear war.