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In any strategic nuclear exchange, the opening salvo is designed to blind, cripple, and decapitate. Missile fields, submarine bases, air force installations, radar networks, and command-and-control hubs would be the primary targets, along with power grids, communication nodes, and transportation chokepoints. Cities near these sites would not be spared; they would be collateral in a calculated attempt to shatter the nation\u2019s ability to respond. The horror would not be evenly distributed. It would follow the logic of war.<\/p>\n

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Regions without dense military infrastructure or major strategic assets might escape the first wave, not because they are valued, but because they are less useful to destroy immediately. Parts of northern New England and sections of the rural Midwest could, in theory, see the sky glow from a distance before feeling the direct effects. Yet no map offers true safety. Fallout drifts. Systems collapse. Supply chains die. The distinction is not between safe and unsafe, but between instant obliteration and a narrow, uncertain window to survive, regroup, and endure a world permanently changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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