Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Whilst it may be slightly macabre, this site is also quite educational.
Given the heavy industry that still prevailed in this country throughout the Cold War era, it's interesting to see how various yields would affect the town/city you live in (so long as you have an ide of what was built/constructed there
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
As an example, Leeds (8 miles north) had Vickers tank factory, large railway marshalling yards, Yorkshire Chemicals, various foundries, local Goverment, etc......
Rather oddly, I found this link, via one of my favourite local history sites; http://www.secretleeds.com/
Some comments are that Leeds is a 'Nuclear Free Zone', so we were safe (apart from re-processing trains heading through to Sellafield very so often)
http://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=4719
The smallest tested (US) Bomb would have affected a few streets, but the biggest 100Mt 'Tsar' would have almost reached from coast to coast!
* as a further example, look at a 1960's OS map, I have a sheet for York & surrounding area, & there's no military airfields marked on it (doubtless the Soviets knew where they were anyway)
NB: I haven't put this comment up as an arguement for/against Nuclear power/armament, just for the scientific/historical viewpoint
Given the heavy industry that still prevailed in this country throughout the Cold War era, it's interesting to see how various yields would affect the town/city you live in (so long as you have an ide of what was built/constructed there
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
As an example, Leeds (8 miles north) had Vickers tank factory, large railway marshalling yards, Yorkshire Chemicals, various foundries, local Goverment, etc......
Rather oddly, I found this link, via one of my favourite local history sites; http://www.secretleeds.com/
Some comments are that Leeds is a 'Nuclear Free Zone', so we were safe (apart from re-processing trains heading through to Sellafield very so often)
http://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=4719
The smallest tested (US) Bomb would have affected a few streets, but the biggest 100Mt 'Tsar' would have almost reached from coast to coast!
* as a further example, look at a 1960's OS map, I have a sheet for York & surrounding area, & there's no military airfields marked on it (doubtless the Soviets knew where they were anyway)
NB: I haven't put this comment up as an arguement for/against Nuclear power/armament, just for the scientific/historical viewpoint