How Close Do You Live to a Nuclear Bomb?

[Hassan Guy]

 

[Hassan Guy]

Chances are pretty close

 

[SQ8]

If in Pakistan and in cities like Rawalpindi and its associated Chaks, places near Sargodha.

Pretty pretty close.

 

[VCheng]

The real question to wonder is how close one lives to a designated target of nuclear weapons, not where they are stored or are launched from.

 

[Desertfalcon]

Unless they want to incinerate a bunch of wild prairie or potato and beet fields...I am relatively safe.

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

If in Pakistan and in cities like Rawalpindi and its associated Chaks, places near Sargodha.

Pretty pretty close.

We should make underground tunnels so that to avoid any damage or accident, civilians can hide in tunnels and to avoid from maximum damage in case of war or accident.

 

[Khanate]

Yea, I can see the nuclear reactor from where I live. Heck, I can feel the radiation everyday.

 

[TruthSeeker]

I live 2 miles from a dual reactor nuclear power plant. I can see the containment domes along the skyline. Does that count?

Oh! I forgot! I also live 8 miles from the US Navy's primary weapons storage facility, Cheatham Annex on the York River, and 25 miles from the Norfolk US Naval Base. So, I can almost feel the glow ....

 

[Khanate]

I live 2 miles from a dual reactor nuclear power plant. I can see the containment domes along the skyline. Does that count?

Oh! I forgot! I also live 8 miles from the US Navy's primary weapons storage facility, Cheatham Annex on the York River, and 25 miles from the Norfolk US Naval Base. So, I can almost feel the glow ....

Pics or it didn't happen...

Tomorrow's headline: American man caught spying for Pakistan, leaked U.S. nuclear secrets

 

[TruthSeeker]

Pics or it didn't happen...

Tomorrow's headline: American man caught spying for Pakistan, leaked U.S. nuclear secrets

Hey! I live in Williamsburg on the Virginia "Peninsula", the finger of land between the York and James Rivers that feed into Hampton Roads at Newport News, and thence into the Chesapeake Bay. We have tons of military facilities on the Peninsula nearby each other, including Fort Eustis (Army), Fort Monroe (Army), Cheatham Annex (Navy Weapons storage and ship loading), Norfolk Naval Base, Norfolk Naval Air Station, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Center, Langley Air Force Base, Langley Air and Space Research Facility (NASA and some military), and Camp Perry, the CIA field training facility commonly called "The Farm". The nuclear power plant I can see is the Surrey Power Plant.

 

[patero]

The closest land based nuke to New Zealand is in southern china, approx 6,000 miles. But with sea based nukes on US subs and carriers in the Pacific at any given time its probably a bit closer, US navy CBGs do visit Australian ports regularly. Our nuclear free policy prohibits any nuclear powered or nuclear armed vessels entering our territorial zone.

The nearest nuclear reactor to New Zealand is the Lucas Heights research reactor in Sydney, Australia, approx 1300 miles.

It is highly unlikely any nuclear power would have New Zealand targeted with nukes, we are not a strategic threat and barely possess the ability to threaten anybody in a military sense . China would have the capability to hit us from such long range with a DF31a or an slbm launched from a type 94 ssbn. But I highly doubt they would do this given the fact that they own half of Aucklands apartment buildings.

If the rest of the world decided to settle their differences with nukes we would be curious bystanders watching from the bottom of the world. Due to the prevailing sea currents and trade winds, we are also likely to be one of the least affected places in the world by nuclear fallout.