What areas in Nevada would be hit in a nuclear war (whether in the 1980s or 2018)?
Would Las Vegas get nuked?
Would Las Vegas get nuked?
What makes Vegas a worthy enough target to strike (besides being a populated city)?Las Vegas would definitely have been a target
Being a populated city in and of itself is good enough. Even without heavy industry having an untouched major metro region after a nuclear war would give the United States (or whatever nation rose up in the aftermath) a large advantage. Clark County in 1980 had a population of 463K persons. That is worth a warhead given the size of the Soviet arsenals.What makes Vegas a worthy enough target to strike (besides being a populated city)?
Area 51
What makes Vegas a worthy enough target to strike (besides being a populated city)?
Nellis AFB borders Las Vegas.
What makes Vegas a worthy enough target to strike (besides being a populated city)?