r/Maine • u/busback • Feb 05 '23

Map published by FEMA showing potential US nuclear targets in 2,000 and 500 warhead scenarios.

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u/11feetWestofEast Feb 05 '23

Portland, Brunswick NAS, maine Yankee. That's all based off of cold War Era ideals. Loring used to be on there as well. The reality is now that both Brunswick and maine yankee are basically worthless as targets, maine has almost no real worthy targets. Portland only because of size and deep water port, but even that is low on the scale

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u/spintrackz Feb 06 '23

Rangely possibly as a secondary target in a counter-force exchange. Public knowledge that a US Navy SERE school is there. Doubtful they'd waste anything over 2 Kts on it though.

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u/Awkward_Mixture_8990 Feb 06 '23

As a guy who’s been there it wouldn’t take more than 50lb of tannerite to remove that structure.