dmcginvt t1_iu874f5 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 9:00 AM

Reply to comment by Twombls in Vermont ICBM missle silos by airhogg

Pretty sure both Boston and Montreal would be hit so we’d be dead pretty quick no matter what.

Careful_Square1742 t1_iu8pfi3 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 12:51 PM

check this out... https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

if you detonated the largest nuke "in use" right now in Montreal or Boston, it wouldn't touch most of VT.

Twombls t1_iubd7ux wrote on October 30, 2022 at 12:51 AM

If you detonate one on every millitary target that would have been high priority during the cold war the state would be fucked though

Careful_Square1742 t1_iubfuf9 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:13 AM

for sure. In an all out nuclear war, the F35s at BTV are probably a secondary or tertiary target for ICBMs as it'll take out camp Johnson too. this'll seriously diminish US capacity to intercept bombers and other aircraft coming in from the north and hamper ground response around the region.

sorrycharlie88 t1_iu8c2rb wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:14 AM

Those cities are far away, we're well outside of the damage radius, and radioactive fallout wouldn't be a huge threat given the prevailing jet stream direction would take it away from us for the most part.

Twombls t1_iubd4ez wrote on October 30, 2022 at 12:50 AM

Nah but early warning bases in vt, a few millitary manufacturers. The silos and burlington woulf be hit. Most of the state would be fucked

Ausmith1 t1_iudi3hw wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:40 PM

Those silos have not been used since 1963 or so, targeting them would be just a waste of a MIRV.