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Post by lordroel on Jun 18, 2016 17:30:56 GMT
It mention that during the war more than 40,000,000 people have been killed, that is if i calculate correct 34% of the 1948 population that was around 146.63 million people, also i do wonder if the people are also counted who died of disease, wounds or radiation sickness, because if not the the number of people who have died in the 36 hour war will be much higher than the 40,000,000 mention. I can't see it being that low. If they hit the big metropolitan areas plus the smaller ones (Birmingham, Austin, that size roughly) they would get so much more, and wind and water contamination would spread the danger throughout the nation, not to mention Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. According to the article if you read it good the list of 13 “key United States centers” getting wiped out by the enemy on the first strike are: New York Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles Philadelphia Boulder Dam New Orleans Denver Washington Salt Lake City Seattle Kansas City Knoxville Its also mention that any city above 50,000 people are also hit, this leave no major United States city intact after the end of the 36-Hour War. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 18, 2016 22:47:31 GMT
I can't see it being that low. If they hit the big metropolitan areas plus the smaller ones (Birmingham, Austin, that size roughly) they would get so much more, and wind and water contamination would spread the danger throughout the nation, not to mention Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. According to the article if you read it good the list of 13 “key United States centers” getting wiped out by the enemy on the first strike are: New York Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles Philadelphia Boulder Dam New Orleans Denver Washington Salt Lake City Seattle Kansas City Knoxville Its also mention that any city above 50,000 people are also hit, this leave no major United States city intact after the end of the 36-Hour War. Interesting why they chose Knoxville but not Memphis or Nashville. Pittsburgh is also curiously not on there, as is St. Louis. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2016 7:18:37 GMT
According to the article if you read it good the list of 13 “key United States centers” getting wiped out by the enemy on the first strike are: New York Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles Philadelphia Boulder Dam New Orleans Denver Washington Salt Lake City Seattle Kansas City Knoxville Its also mention that any city above 50,000 people are also hit, this leave no major United States city intact after the end of the 36-Hour War. Interesting why they chose Knoxville but not Memphis or Nashville. Pittsburgh is also curiously not on there, as is St. Louis. It could be random or there are people living in it who the author does not like. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 19, 2016 17:58:11 GMT
Interesting why they chose Knoxville but not Memphis or Nashville. Pittsburgh is also curiously not on there, as is St. Louis. It could be random or there are people living in it who the author does not like. He must not like the University of Tennessee. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2016 18:21:29 GMT
It could be random or there are people living in it who the author does not like. He must not like the University of Tennessee. Could be but i do not think so, maybe the city was just part of the 1st target list, also it mention that the enemy’s purpose is not to destroy industry, which is an objective only in the long old-fashioned wars like the last one, but to paralyze the United States by destroying its people. If you want you can also read the Third Report of the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces to the Secretary of War.” online, it was published a week before the World War III, The 36-Hour War of 1948 article in Life magazine and from page 59 on wards you can read, its called Air power and the Future
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 19, 2016 19:17:20 GMT
He must not like the University of Tennessee. Could be but i do not think so, maybe the city was just part of the 1st target list, also it mention that the enemy’s purpose is not to destroy industry, which is an objective only in the long old-fashioned wars like the last one, but to paralyze the United States by destroying its people. If you want you can also read the Third Report of the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces to the Secretary of War.” online, it was published a week before the World War III, The 36-Hour War of 1948 article in Life magazine and from page 59 on wards you can read, its called Air power and the Future
But then why Knoxville? That's such a small city in comparison to Memphis, which is even in the same state. That list does not make all that much sense to me. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2016 19:23:42 GMT
Could be but i do not think so, maybe the city was just part of the 1st target list, also it mention that the enemy’s purpose is not to destroy industry, which is an objective only in the long old-fashioned wars like the last one, but to paralyze the United States by destroying its people. If you want you can also read the Third Report of the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces to the Secretary of War.” online, it was published a week before the World War III, The 36-Hour War of 1948 article in Life magazine and from page 59 on wards you can read, its called Air power and the Future
But then why Knoxville? That's such a small city in comparison to Memphis, which is even in the same state. That list does not make all that much sense to me. Does it matter, if the cities had more than 50,000 people they would have been targeted no matter if it happen in the first strike or strikes after that. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 19, 2016 19:26:18 GMT
But then why Knoxville? That's such a small city in comparison to Memphis, which is even in the same state. That list does not make all that much sense to me. Does it matter, if the cities had more than 50,000 people they would have been targeted no matter if it happen in the first strike or strikes after that. I understand that bit; Knoxville has a fairly large metropolitan area. But why on that list in particular? |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2016 19:32:21 GMT
Does it matter, if the cities had more than 50,000 people they would have been targeted no matter if it happen in the first strike or strikes after that. I understand that bit; Knoxville has a fairly large metropolitan area. But why on that list in particular? Maybe they where aiming for Fort Knox (U.S. Army, also home to the armor school) and Fort Campbell (U.S. Army, home to the 101st Helicopter Infantry Division) both are in Kentucky as is the city of Knoxville who in 1948 had a population of 125,000 people. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 19, 2016 19:43:31 GMT
I understand that bit; Knoxville has a fairly large metropolitan area. But why on that list in particular? Maybe they where aiming for Fort Knox (U.S. Army, also home to the armor school) and Fort Campbell (U.S. Army, home to the 101st Helicopter Infantry Division) both are in Kentucky as is the city of Knoxville who in 1948 had a population of 125,000 people. Knoxville isn't all that near Fort Knox; the latter is closer to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and Fort Campbell is closer to the Kentucky-Tennessee border. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2016 19:46:53 GMT
Maybe they where aiming for Fort Knox (U.S. Army, also home to the armor school) and Fort Campbell (U.S. Army, home to the 101st Helicopter Infantry Division) both are in Kentucky as is the city of Knoxville who in 1948 had a population of 125,000 people. Knoxville isn't all that near Fort Knox; the latter is closer to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and Fort Campbell is closer to the Kentucky-Tennessee border. But what ever it be, the city of Knoxville was hit in the first strike, i can assume that both Fort Knox and Fort Campbell will be hit in strikes after that. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 19, 2016 19:49:11 GMT
Knoxville isn't all that near Fort Knox; the latter is closer to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and Fort Campbell is closer to the Kentucky-Tennessee border. But what ever it be, the city of Knoxville was hit in the first strike, i can assume that both Fort Knox and Fort Campbell will be hit in strikes after that. That I can agree on. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2016 20:00:20 GMT
Also i think that those underground rocket-launching site and atomic bomb factory have one major flaw, one hit on top of them and those firing tubes will be out of action which would moot the whole installation who function is to produce atomic rockets and fire them.
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 19, 2016 20:09:32 GMT
Also i think that those underground rocket-launching site and atomic bomb factory have one major flaw, one hit on top of them and those firing tubes will be out of action which would moot the whole installation who function is to produce atomic rockets and fire them. I believe most American nuclear sites have multiple silos, so there is a likelihood of at least some of them surviving. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 20, 2016 14:02:58 GMT
Also i think that those underground rocket-launching site and atomic bomb factory have one major flaw, one hit on top of them and those firing tubes will be out of action which would moot the whole installation who function is to produce atomic rockets and fire them. I believe most American nuclear sites have multiple silos, so there is a likelihood of at least some of them surviving. Well its mention that there are several dozens of these underground rocket-launching site and atomic bomb factory's spread across the country so having several out of use due some reason means that the United States still can launch nuclear armed rockets to the enemy with those that remain. |
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