Map: The nuclear bombs in your backyard

The United States currently has 5,113 atomic warheads deployed in silos, bombers, and submarines, mostly in the continental US. That doesn't include thousands of "zombies" being kept in reserve and a backlog of more than 3,000 warheads awaiting dismantlement. Meanwhile, we're telling the world that we're on the path to disarmament, even as we're spending more on the nuclear weapons complex than we did during the Cold War.

Here is the map. I think its sort of interesting to see where the big guns are at. Here in the upper midwest we pretty much all knew about the silos in North Dakota but I had no idea that there were some in MN, Take a peek at where you live and see if you have any in your back yard.



Link to article: motherjones.com...

reply to post by lcbjr1979

Wow I'm surrounded...and near a fault line. There's some food for thought. S&F OP

I dont know if we should belive this map.. would US tell the world about its weak points..
might aswell paint a big X and write "hit us hard here"

reply to post by Vandalour

These are just for show, wonder what's up the sleeve

Seems like it is very innaccurate, according to enraged people in the comments section.

Interesting concept, but without better intel it's lacking a certain something..

reply to post by Vandalour


I understand what your saying. There was remark in the article about how accurate it is.

Note: This map was made with 100% unclassified, public information. Even the military doesn't hide where it keeps its missiles and bombers. See links to sourcing below

The sources it linked to are Sources: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Federation of American Scientists (PDF), Office of the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters, Nuclear Energy Institute

So who knows it may be all true or it could be all false we each have to decide if we believe it or not.

I think they are forgetting about a few places that ought to have a red spot put over them. The nuclear power plants are ones I still feel must be shut down on a rotating TEMPORARY basis until we know back up power systems work with 100% reliability AND redundancy in the event of major disaster as each area can reasonably expect that to come.

It isn't the Tsunami or the Earthquake that make Fuku what it is today. It was a laughably simply problem, if it hadn't carried catastrophic consequences. The lights went out and they couldn't turn them back on. When the generators were carried off to who knows where by the water, disaster went to catastrophe. We DO need to make sure even an 1859 CME solar blast won't prevent the nuke plants from performing a controlled shut down to a safe, cold state.

I think the people in the comments section are confused. The map is supposed to show where our nuclear warheads are located, not the location of nuclear power plants which is what alot of the comments are related too.

reply to post by lcbjr1979


cant be all of them because where i go fishing here in Colorado you stray to far off the path MP's will be there to escort you there are silos out near Lyons and in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal so the "up the sleeve" are all over

If you look at the legend at the bottom of the map it shows that red markers are weapons, blue markers are weapons labs, and green ones are nuclear power plants.

I'll have to call BS I live in Michigan and have traced a lot of things down and there's no bombs in this state . The last ones left when Withsmith AFB closed/ I don't know what the map shows/ Kinda nuke plants but not really

reply to post by lcbjr1979


That's a pretty big open area with none at all: Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon, Utah.

Or maybe they just hide them better?

reply to post by jude11


you are right, theres a plenty in eastern colorado...I went in one in 1973...in the airforce......they're easy to dig in the wash-out rubble atthe base of the rockies...the rubble is 12,000 feet deep

reply to post by cdnutz44


Good call I feel silly that I missed that.

reply to post by lcbjr1979

Good subject. Me S n' F you. Weapons can be hidden anywhere. I remember during the Reagan years there was a lot of public media discussion about stuff like Star Wars, Race track "MX" missiles, train box cars that travel the country hiding a single ICBM. Mobile launchers on trucks that tool around the country hiding and only moving when satellites aren't over head.
Then you of course have all the "boomers" and attack subs, air craft carriers and even battle ships and missile cruisers. All are capable of launching nukes in one form or another. They are every where, maybe in a harbor on the coast, maybe under the polar ice cap. I got this picture of how many warheads were in inventory in the late 80's, early 90's:

L5. All the Warheads in the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal. This field of ceramic nose cones represents, in miniature, all the warheads in the U.S. nuclear arsenal by the end of the Cold War. Estimates set that total at 25,000. We see in this picture the vertical proliferation of nuclear weapons within the arsenal of a single superpower. We stand on the threshold of a horizontal proliferation of nuclear weapons worldwide as plutonium becomes more available. Many warheads have been dismantled in the US and Russia, but the long-term disposition of the plutonium extracted from the warheads has not yet been determined. Plutonium has a half-life of 24 000 years. There is no practical way to destroy it once it has been created. “Amber Waves of Grain” installation by Barbara Donachy, Boston Science Museum, Massachusetts. 13 February 1985.

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Originally posted by freakshowfatty
reply to post by lcbjr1979

 

cant be all of them because where i go fishing here in Colorado you stray to far off the path MP's will be there to escort you there are silos out near Lyons and in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal so the "up the sleeve" are all over

Yep. the map is missing allot of them...

I know of one lab that they missed! Knolls Atomic Lab in Schenectady, NY! that is also about 5 miles from a big GE plant.

reply to post by cdnutz44


Including power plants along with weapons is like including gasoline stations along with napalm depots: extraordinarily misleading.

Very precise, thanks for opening my eyes.

reply to post by freakshowfatty


The fact that there are MPs in the woods turning folks around does not implicate the area in terms of its probability of containing a nuclear missile silo or deconstruction area. The military police patrol an awful lot of different kinds of installation.

Unless you have seen a fence with a radioactivity warning on it, the readings on a rad counter in the area spiking wildly from cracked casings and so on, or have witnessed a missile being taken up that way on a flat bed, then there is no reason to suspect the area of being a nuclear site of any nature.

The presence of MPs might make it a semi secret training base, it could be a listening post, or a testing range for electronic surveillance countermeasures, a communications post, anything. It could literaly be any military related installation.

There has to be a stop to blanket statements which fall into the "X there fore Y and thats the end of it" bracket . The fact is that unless you can say you have seen something more than the MOST common sight at a military compound, theres no reason to start blowing the Rad horn just yet. Cool your rods dude!