Happy 2025… what a terrible thing to think about. Yet it is at the top of many people’s minds. Newsweek used maps made by a professor and historian named Alex Wellerstein to determine the impact of a Russian nuclear strike using their most powerful missile. So, if you’re looking for nuke results from a different country… they would most likely look pretty similar.
Both Iowa and Illinois actually have cities that ranked in the top 10 most likely nuclear targets from our enemies.
Council Bluffs Iowa Target
The target is located on the border of Iowa and Nebraska. Wallstreet 24/7 even puts this location in the top 15 in America. This spot is known as the Offutt Air Force Base and is actually the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command.
In the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush, who was in Florida at the time they struck, was first flown to Barksdale AFB (No. 15), then to Offutt, where he was taken into an underground command center bunker designed to withstand a nuclear blast and as a place from which a presidential order to go to nuclear war could be issued. There he held an hours-long teleconference with his senior cabinet staff, the CIA, Pentagon, and FBI, among
others.
Chicago Illinois Target
I bet you saw this one coming…