![]() ![]() For this reason here is a map of all the targets that FEMA visualized in the US in 1990. This map is based upon past prevailing wind patterns but in the expected catastrophic events they may be much different from this.įallout Pattern Map for US (FEMA 212/September 1990)įor the same reasons as fallout from power plants located elsewhere - fallout can come to your state from nuclear targets elsewhere. The following is a conceptual map of how a nuclear event one place in the US can affect other localities. There can be armories and warehouses of weapons and explosives that could fall into dangerous hands. There may just be hazardous stores of industrial chemicals that are no longer being maintained and protected.Ħ. Storage concerns should not be with just nuclear weaponsīut also with biological and chemical weapons.ĥ. Then there might somewhere be a stockpile of nuclear weapons.Ĥ. Which presently has to be kept cooled and maintained.ģ. The same applies to the storage of used nuclear fuel May not be available to maintain the plants - there is no telling what may happen to / with them.Ģ. Nuclear power plants (think Chernoybl) for one. Because circumstances have changed since 1990 some of the targets in many of the maps should be removed and possibly there are others that should be added.īesides nuclear weapons there can be various radiological and other weapon hazards within your state and radiological threats may come from outside your state.ġ. For some states VERY FEW and POSSIBLY / PROBABLY NONE of the sites will be hit but others may have some very significant targets. Even an all-out nuclear war - did not by any means mean that every site would be hit. It was just a conceptual map about the nuclear threat. The purpose of this page (in a post-nuclear situation) will be to map out any targets in the state that were actually nuked.Īt the bottom of this page is the 1990 FEMA nuclear target map for North Carolina. ![]()
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