I don't understand yours and others thinking here.
Russia has over 6000 warheads, They are not going drop 500 on DC, no need to. Russia is targeting Childrens hospitals today in Ukraine.
Why do you think Arkanasa in this gets a free pass?
Your response is rather short sighted. In actuality nuclear war is not my biggest concern. How many nuclear wars have there been? A far, far, far greater risk of injury, illness or death is from a military accident. In 1980 a worker in a Titan II missile silo north of Little Rock, dropped a large socket off of a platform near the top of the missile. It bounced down the silo and punctured the liquid fuel tanks. As they were trying to evacuate the fuel ignited, blew the headworks and blast doors off (built up several feet thick from 12” plate steel) and launched the nuclear warhead off in the middle of the night into the nearby woods, whereabouts and condition unknown for hours. It was found the following day, fortunately intact. I got to supervise demoing what was left of the silo years later.
1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion - Wikipedia
Pine Buff Arsenal was one of our chemical weapons storage and older production sites and in the 80s and earlier stored a large cache of nerve gas and mustard munitions and bulk storage, much of it decades old from as far back as WWII and the Cold War. There were even German, WWII tractor rockets still loaded with mustard gas brought back from Germany at the end of WWII. Much of this was stored in old, small WWII bunkers scattered around the grounds and leakers were a common occurrence. Also due to an accident the old tractor rockets, still armed were scattered around the Base in wooded areas. My employees and contractors encounters a number of them in the 80s. Standard practice for entering a gas munitions bunker for years was to get a rabbit from the bunny farm on Base, suit up in MOPP gear or similar, crack the bunker door open enough to toss the rabbit in, close the door and come back some period of time later to see if the rabbit came out alive. There was an incident in the 80s where someone crawled over a section of Arsenal perimeter fence with welding/cutting gear, and cut open the door of a munitions bunker. Fortunately it was not one in one of the containment areas where most of the gas was stored. The surrounding communities lived in fear of a chemical release accident on the Arsenal for decades, dreading the siren warning systems going off that was put in the surrounding communities. In the late 80s and early 90s the chemical weapons were finally destroyed.
In 1960 we also had a SAC B47 taking off from the Air Base, crash in Little Rock with several crew member and public fatalities. Fortunately it was a reconnaissance plane and not armed with munitions.
So no, I don’t think Arkansas gets a free pass in a nuclear war. But I sure don’t miss all this stuff stored all around me and the risk of a serious accident.
