Map of British Nuclear Targets

[kato13]

Ok I have pulled the British Nuclear Targets from the V2.2 Manual.

Aberdeen, Aldershot, Bantry Bay, Barnsley, Bedford, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bolton, Bradford, Bristol, Bury, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Dover, Dundee, Edinburgh, Folkestone, Glasgow, Gloucester, Grangemouth, Grimsby, Hereford, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Luton, Lanchester, Milford Haven, Newport, Nottingham, PortTalbot, Rochdale, Rotherham, Sheffield, Southampton, Stockport, Swansea, Warrington, Wigan, Wolverhampton, Yeovil, York.

I have a question about Bantry Bay. Is there a Bantry Bay in the UK I have found one in Ireland (Southern) and in South Africa. For now I am leaving it as the Irish one. Am I missing something here

[kato13]

Link to the map below.

http://games.juhlin.com/files/uk_strike_map.jpg (1200x1520 124 KB)

[Rainbow Six]

I have a question about Bantry Bay. Is there a Bantry Bay in the UK I have found one in Ireland (Southern) and in South Africa. For now I am leaving it as the Irish one. Am I missing something here

There is no place called Bantry Bay listed in my AA atlas of the UK. I'm fairly sure that it's the one in Ireland that GDW were referring to, particulalry since according to Wkikpedia Bantry Bay is the main petroleum terminus for Ireland. I'd say it falls under the category of neutral nations attacked to deny their facilities to the belligerents.

Thanks for creating the map - it's a good resource.

[kato13]

There is no place called Bantry Bay listed in my AA atlas of the UK. I'm fairly sure that it's the one in Ireland that GDW were referring to, particulalry since according to Wkikpedia Bantry Bay is the main petroleum terminus for Ireland. I'd say it falls under the category of neutral nations attacked to deny their facilities to the belligerents.

Thanks for the confirm on this. I'm guessing that they saw Ireland and just rolled it into the UK.

Thanks for creating the map - it's a good resource.

I'm always glad when people find my work useful.

[natehale1971]

Thank you for this...

I've a couple of questions...

First is, how did you make it And second was... do you think you'll be making any more for the other countries or even one of the European continent

[kato13]

Thank you for this...

I've a couple of questions...

First is, how did you make it And second was... do you think you'll be making any more for the other countries or even one of the European continent

I built the code to make it using google maps and my webserver.

If someone gives me a target list (with warhead size) I can build a map in about an hour I would expect.

Massive numbers of strikes or a huge map might take longer. I am currently working on the math for a MIRV impact as described in the Morrow Project basic rules. Once I complete that I will do a 2802 warhead strike on the US. I don't expect it to be pretty.

[Grimace]

Poor UK. Compare the number of nukes that hit it vs. the number of nukes that hit the entire US. Us Yanks faired far, far better in terms of not being nuked to radioactive rubble compared to the Brits.

[Rainbow Six]

Poor UK. Compare the number of nukes that hit it vs. the number of nukes that hit the entire US. Us Yanks faired far, far better in terms of not being nuked to radioactive rubble compared to the Brits.

Tell me about it! My house is under one of those big red circles on the map!

[TiggerCCW UK]

Tell me about it! My house is under one of those big red circles on the map!

I sympathise! According to real Russian targets, my house would have gone as well with 20Mt targetted at Belfast for the shipyards and aircraft factory. In canon though all I had to contend with was a sectarian civil war that had reduced my city to rubble....

[Targan]

One of Australia's two biggest fleet bases is just south of my city (also within the same area is the biggest fuel refinery in this part of the world). A nuke target for sure.

[kato13]

The 25 nearest canon strikes to my home (and my relation to them)

37.8 km NxNW of Whiting, IN, 1750 Kt
63.4 km NE of Joliet, IL, 1000 Kt
327.8 km WxNW of Lima, OH, 750 Kt
342.1 km W of Toledo, OH, 1750 Kt
363.8 km N of Lawrenceville, IL, 500 Kt
382.8 km W of Windsor, Canada, 1000 Kt
405.8 km NxNE of Wood River, IL, 1500 Kt
426.8 km NxNE of Scott AFB, IL, 500 Kt
444.7 km WxSW of Sarnla, Canada, 1750 Kt
506.8 km S of Sawyer AFB, MI, 500 Kt
586.8 km NW of Catlettsburg, KY, 750 Kt
652.8 km W of Hamilton, Canada, 1000 Kt
657.7 km ExNE of Sugar Creek, MO, 500 Kt
671.1 km ExNE of Kansas City, KS, 500 Kt
699.9 km WxSW of Toronto, Canada, 2000 Kt
694.4 km E of Offutt AFB, NE, 1500 Kt
703.4 km NxNE of Blytheville AFB, AR, 1000 Kt
810.9 km WxSW of North Bay, Canada, 750 Kt
852.0 km WxSW of Trenton, Canada, 750 Kt
835.1 km NW of Fort A. P. Hill, VA, 500 Kt
930.8 km WxSW of Chalk River, Canada, 500 Kt
912.7 km ExNE of Eldorado, KS, 500 Kt
940.5 km NxNW of Dobbins AFB, GA, 500 Kt
959.2 km WxNW of Arlington, VA, 500 Kt
960.6 km WxNW of Quantico, VA, 500 Kt


The results of one of the many tools that will be available when my new mapping project launches. Stay tuned.

[Ramjam]

Well the UK hit list could have been alot worst.

Plymouth and Portsmouth were not on the list. So the Royal Navy keeps a main repair base and a nuke sub re-fueling base at Plymouth and another major repair base at Portsmouth. Also both have large ammo and fuel depots.

I'm surprised to see none of the USAF's bases in the UK didn't get hit either.
At the time both TW2000 v1&2 came out the US still had large bases at Fairford & Upper Heyford to name just two.

[Targan]

I've always assumed in my campaign that obvious targets that one would expect would be nuked (especially NATO targets) but were not had had nukes fired at them but the weapons had been intercepted by some 'Star Wars' system, malfunctioned because they are crappy Soviet weapons, missed or were taken out or rendered inoperative by some other means such as EMP.

[avantman42]

I was born and brought up in Maltby, about six or seven miles from Rotherham, one of the targets listed.

I spend a couple of years in a little village in Lincolnshire, which appears to be far from any targets. Lived in Carlisle for some years (also far from any targets), then moved to Stoke-on-Trent, where I currently live. Still not close to any targets, but closer than I was in Carlisle or Lincolnshire.

Thanks for the map. I'd looked at the list of targets, but didn't quite notice Rotherham was on it until I looked at the map - that took me slightly by surprise

[simonmark6]

If you look at the strikes on Swansea and Port Talbot, the bit where the two strikes overlap is where I live. At least it would have been quick...