During the Cold War, I always assumed that Washington state, with its nuclear missiles and military bases, was high on the Soviet's list of nuclear targets.
Now that the Cold War is (ostensibly) over, are anyone's nuclear missiles still aimed at the Evergreen State?
I know that nuclear missiles can be re-aimed, and that nukes on submarines are mobile, but what I mean is...is Washington state still considered a valuable target for a nuclear strike to anyone with sophisticated nuclear delivery capability -- ICBMs, tactical short-range nukes, etc.? (I'm not talking about terrorists with "dirty bombs.")
No one can definitively know the answer to this question, of course, but I'm inviting educated guesses.
2007-03-18
05:24:41
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