Do You Live In A State That Is At High Risk Of Attack During A Nuclear War?Michael Snyder
If the Russians launch an all-out nuclear attack on the United States tonight, will you live or will you die? Of course I don’t think that the Russians will launch such an attack right now, but we live at a time when the threat of nuclear war is greater than ever. More than half of the nations on the entire planet are either currently engaged in military conflict or are funding military conflict, and war rumors are spreading like wildfire all over social media on a daily basis. For years, I have been warning that the trajectory that we are currently on is bringing us dangerously close to the unthinkable, but global leaders just continue to drag us in that direction. If we do not change course, nuclear war could happen a lot sooner than many people think.
Of course these days there are tens of millions of Americans that are convinced that a nuclear war is in our future.
In fact, one recent survey discovered that 46 percent of Americans actually believe that a nuclear war is likely to happen within the next 10 years…
If we do not find a way to make peace with the Russians, eventually someone will cross a line that they should not have crossed.
When that day arrives, will you be living in a state that is at high risk of attack?
If the Russians were to launch a surprise attack, taking out our nuclear silos would be the top priority.
The silos for our Minuteman missiles are located in three vast missile fields that were purposely constructed in relatively unpopulated areas.
The first “nuclear sponge” is located in central Montana, the second is located in North Dakota, and the third covers parts of Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado.
The reason why our leaders located these “nuclear sponges” in less populated areas was so that more heavily populated areas would be spared…
Picture hundreds of underground silos across remote areas of the country as the pores of a massive sponge. Enemies – who can spot the silos by satellite – must destroy them in an attack against the United States or risk being hit by American missiles, according to U.S. experts. Planning such a large, complex attack might make an adversary think twice because it would take two nuclear warheads (or one massive one) to destroy a Minuteman III silo. The 450 to 900 warheads thus absorbed by the U.S. missile fields would strike in less populated areas than they otherwise might.
Any attack against the nuclear sponge, however, would result in radioactive fallout that could contaminate hundreds of communities across the United States, depending on the weather conditions at the time of the strike. A nuclear detonation creates fallout. It blows radioactive dirt, dust and other debris into the air, and exploding nuclear weapons at ground level (as targeting the silos would require) increases the amount of fallout.
In addition to our missile silos, bases where our nuclear bombers are located would also be primary targets.
Those bases include Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, and Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.
Without a doubt, the Russians would also target bases for our nuclear submarines on both coasts. The two most prominent are Naval Base Kitsap in Washington and Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia.
Of course every single one of our military bases would be a potential target.
There are more than 400 military bases in U.S. territory, and every single state has at least one.
Major cities of strategic importance would also likely be targeted. In my opinion, Washington D.C. and New York City would be at the top of the list.
If we end up fighting a nuclear war with the Russians, we will be at a major disadvantage, because we are still relying on missile silos that were built in the 1960s and missiles that were built in the 1970s…
In fact, the U.S. has not built nuclear missile silos at scale since the 1960s, when the Army Corps of Engineers oversaw the construction of around 1,200 launch facilities; and it has not developed and mass-deployed a new intercontinental ballistic missile (or ICBM) since the Minuteman III entered service in the 1970s.
New missiles are eventually on the way, but the projected cost of replacing our old missiles has nearly doubled…
By July 2024, the public knew the program had blown its budget. But the announcement was nonetheless staggering.
The projected price of an Air Force program to build a next-generation nuclear missile – dubbed Sentinel – had risen 81%, from $77.7 billion to nearly $141 billion. (That’s the equivalent of Americans’ combined medical debt as calculated in 2021, according to a research study.)
The reason why the price tag has gone up so much is because it turns out that we are going to have to replace all of the old missile silos as well…
Bob Peters, a career weapons of mass destruction expert who leads nuclear weapons policy work for the conservative Heritage Foundation, explained how the silos’ locations in cold winter Mountain West and Great Plains locales contributed to their sorry state.
“After 60 cold winters of freezing and thawing and freezing and thawing, that concrete is just falling apart, and (the silos) cannot be salvaged,” Peters said.
Many of our old silos are barely functioning at this stage.
And that is really bad news, because the work to replace our current silos will not be complete until the 2050s…
Military officials anticipate the project will reach the silo engineering phase in mid-2027. The replacement missiles and silos likely won’t be complete until the 2050s. During that time, the U.S. will continue to rely on its venerable Minuteman III force.
Russia’s nuclear weapons arsenal is not only the largest in the world, but thanks to the limitations imposed on the United States by the 2010 New START treaty, it is also the most advanced.
You may have heard about the new Oreshnik missiles, the Bulava missiles that have been developed for Borei-class submarines, the extremely impressive Kalibr-M cruise missiles and the Poseidon underwater drones, but the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles will be the most impressive of all once they are fully operational…
