{"id":472,"date":"2022-10-13T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T09:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/free-map.org\/maps\/?p=472"},"modified":"2022-10-13T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T09:33:08","slug":"declassified-u-s-nuclear-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/blog\/declassified-u-s-nuclear-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The National Security Archives recently published a\u00a0declassified list of U.S. nuclear targets\u00a0from 1956, which spanned 1,100 locations across Eastern Europe, Russia, China, and North Korea. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The map  shows all 1,100 nuclear targets from that list. Even though today\u2019s nuclear targets list is classified, it probably doesn\u2019t look dramatically different. The United States still has about 1,900 nuclear warheads deployed on missiles and bombers (with thousands more on reserve), ready to be launched at a moment\u2019s notice and able to hit their targets within 30 minutes. This unstable situation is extremely risky and has repeatedly come close to triggering nuclear war by accident. Moreover, many of today\u2019s hydrogen\u00a0bombs are\u00a0hundreds of times more powerful\u00a0than the two atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If a nuclear war were to break out today, nuclear winter might\u00a0kill most people on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to the map &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/resource\/us-nuclear-targets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">1100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Security Archives recently published a\u00a0declassified list of U.S. nuclear targets\u00a0from 1956, which spanned 1,100 locations across Eastern Europe, Russia, China, and North Korea. The map shows all 1,100 nuclear targets from that list. Even though today\u2019s nuclear targets list is classified, it probably doesn\u2019t look dramatically different. The United States still has about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-russo-ukrainian-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}