Where the nukes are: 20 miles from downtown Seattle

We're number one!.. We're number one!

To be hit first that is. 

Nearly one-quarter of America's 9,962 nuclear weapons are now assigned to the Bangor submarine base on Hood Canal, 20 air miles northwest of downtown Seattle.

This makes Bangor the largest nuclear weapons storehouse in the United States, and possibly the world.

The share of the nation's nuclear armaments at Bangor is higher than it has ever been for two reasons:

• The warheads assigned to the ballistic missile submarines stationed at Bangor and at Kings Bay, Ga., now constitute more than half of the U.S. strategic weapons force.

Source: The Seattle Times: Local News: Where the nukes are: 20 miles from downtown Seattle

 

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