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I'm surprised at Colorado's: https://i.imgur.com/kntCw6i.jpeg
The area getting carpet nuked is Pawnee National Grasslands and the surrounding cattle ranches. That area borders Wyoming (https://i.imgur.com/fKtHTTF.jpeg) and Nebraska (https://i.imgur.com/5MoU8AQ.jpeg). Wyoming I get, Cheyenne is a major nuclear missile base to the point that they have three fucking ICBMs outside the gate of Warren AFB. There's fuck-all in that area of Colorado and Nebraska though as far as bases go. It has to be a bunch of dispersed missile silos on farms.
Looks like there used to be several Titan missile silos up there back in the day.
I know a lot of contemporary silos in the region are like that, nondescript fenced-in sites with one or two Air Force security guards randomly stashed in the mountains. 1990 would have still been at Cold War operating levels so they're probably all throughout the area.
Yeah that's my assumption as well. The saturation of that area was surprising. I looked at my state out of curiosity and it was what you'd expect, population centers and military bases, but nothing to that degree.
I know Parks and Rec didn't age that well, but that seems excessive. :troll:
It's a nice place too. Lots of ravines to shoot in.
those counties know what they did & fully deserve to be turned into glass :posadist-nuke:
Isn't there a big data center or something there? I remember driving through that area in 2020 and seeing a crazy looking sprawling complex that wasn't expressly a military installation, but had far too much security and menacing architecture to be civilian.
I've only driven past Pawnee once and it was during a blizzard so I didn't see anything. It's the one part of Colorado I have no reason to ever visit.