Right next to where we tested the actual missiles that would have been used, so pretty much dead already.
Another person from the Chicago suburbs. For various reasons I can’t believe that Chicago wouldn’t have been on the first strike list. So it would either be A or B depending on how accurate the missiles were and where exactly you’d aim it (no reason to waste half the radius ‘blowing up’ the lake)
Norfolk VA. I would have been vapor except that our elementary school desks were designed to withstand the blast, we just had to duck and cover. During the drills, I always worried that my ass was sticking out from under the safety of the desk top.
I was thinking of Cecil Field – and my bad, it was Navy. I’d forgotten. (I could picture the entrance to the place, but damned if I could remember its name.)
Part of it is a nice equestrian center now.
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From 1975 to 1978, though, my dad was stationed at Fort Carson (U.S. Army) in Colorado Springs – home of Peterson Air Force Base (Falcon AFB, now Schreiver AFB, wasn’t built until the early '80s), the aforementioned Fort Carson, and the Air Force Academy (home of many future Air Force officers). Oh yeah, and NORAD (which is under Cheyenne Mountain, but if I’d been the Russians I’d have sent a missile there anyway). My World War III experience during those years would have been brief[/quote
Heinlein fans mostly know it, but it’s worth noting that RAH moved to Colorado Springs around 1960 to be in a nuke-safe zone… then they built NORAD in his back yard, guaranteed to bring on the biggest and best Russia could send.
Which is why he went to such great lengths to beat Cheyenne Mountain into a crater in MIAHM… 
About 30 miles from Bergstrom AFB… Dead.
San Diego. Dead (unless for some reason the Russians didn’t want to anger the Mexicans by taking out Tijuana as a casualty of war). This was something we knew and discussed as kids.
Outside Milwaukee during my childhood, so probably OK (in the sense of “not immediately blown up”). I would have to be one of the plucky survivors battling mutants for gasoline and rifle ammunition.
Regards,
Shodan
What, are you kidding? Out in the middle of West Fucking Texas, a nuclear blast would have improved the place.
I grew up less than a mile from Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Permanent orange afro.
I grew up in spitting distance of Niagara Falls power plant, a ground zero as it supplies a huge amount of electricity to the east coast. We were still doing duck and cover drills in 1975 in school.
Arlington, VA. Poof!
Grew up in the suburbs on Washington DC. Dad worked at the Pentagon. Between the capital itself, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, Fort Meade, etc., I’m sure I would have died on the first day.
I live in a large enough city that I’d probably be killed. I’ve always had the belief that regardless of what both sides claimed, given the ideological/holy war nature of the conflict they’d both go out of their way to kill as many of the other side’s civilians as possible, which means they’d kill all the large cities. So, anything on this list would be destroyed, at the very least.
Tucson, AZ, home to Davis-Monthan AFB which at the time, was a B52 SAC base (70’s) and the town was surrounded by Titan 2 missiles. Los Poofos.
I grew up around 7 miles away from O’Hare which was the busiest airport in the world. 20 miles from Chicago proper. Always figured I’d be dust.
I was living near Oak Ridge Tennessee, people are getting too much radiation now and there wasn’t a bomb drop.
Oh, dead, dead, dead. Grew up in Utah, near where much of the testing was going on in Southern Nevada, and Dugway Proving Grounds wasn’t that far away, either.
And no, I’m not one.
The site seems to run by people selling fallout shelters/survival gear so take it with a grain of salt but they claim to have maps of nuclear targets based off 25 year old FEMA response maps. Targets based on population centers, other important infrastructure, military bases, etc.
I don’t vouch for any of this (I’m not about to go verifying old FEMA maps) and post it just for curiosity’s sake.
Yes, Near Glenview.
Even as a kid I knew I’d rather suffer a direct hit and get vaporized than live through the aftermath with radiation sickness.