{"id":16882,"date":"2015-12-23T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T16:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=16882"},"modified":"2020-12-05T14:32:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T13:32:16","slug":"designated-ground-zeros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/designated-ground-zeros\/","title":{"rendered":"Designated Ground Zeros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USA&#8217;s 1950&#8217;s era nuclear target list makes for grim reading.<\/p>\n<p>There were relatively few targets though. I thought pretty much every Soviet city was on the list.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37063\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/designated-ground-zeros\/nuke-targets-1959-medium\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?fit=983%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"983,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nuke-targets-1959 (Medium)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?fit=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?fit=983%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37063\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?resize=983%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"983\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?w=983&amp;ssl=1 983w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?resize=768%2C600&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?resize=500%2C391&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?resize=150%2C117&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?resize=400%2C313&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?resize=800%2C625&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuke-targets-1959-Medium.png?resize=200%2C156&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/23\/us\/politics\/1950s-us-nuclear-target-list-offers-chilling-insight.html\">1950s U.S. Nuclear Target List Offers Chilling Insight &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA&#8217;s 1950&#8217;s era nuclear target list makes for grim reading. There were relatively few targets though. I thought pretty much every Soviet city was on the list.\u00a0 Source: 1950s U.S. Nuclear Target List Offers Chilling Insight &#8211; The New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,10],"tags":[259,262,258,300,296,233],"class_list":["post-16882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-militaria","tag-history","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-politics","tag-processed","tag-published","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-4oi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27041,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/warnings-return-of-the-long-emergency\/","url_meta":{"origin":16882,"position":0},"title":"Warnings: Return of The Long Emergency","author":"Limbic","date":"June 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"James Kunstler's 2005 book \"The Long\u00a0Emergency\" made a huge impression on me when I read it in 2006. 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