I'm working on a thread that involves this set in 1973. JFK Airport is New York City's biggest, located in the borough of Queens, almost at the Nassau County line. It had at the time one runway big enough to land/take off a B-52, with the possibility of doing so on a second.
Would this have made it a first-strike target on its own, independent of a Soviet strike on Manhattan, which certainly was a priority first-strike target?