For Star subscribers: The Cold War is long over, but Tucson is still a nuclear target, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is stoking fresh fears of an all-out nuclear conflict. A new analysis imagines just how we might be…
Henry Brean The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago last December, but Tucson never stopped being a target.
During his free time over the past several years, Teter has been building a publicly available, open-sourced version of the plans he used to help write for the government. Teter has two warheads hitting Sierra Vista — one at Libby Army Airfield and the other at Fort Huachuca itself. The greater Phoenix metro area gets slammed with a whopping 18 nuclear blasts.
The same warhead that would silence the phones would also vaporize or crush virtually all of downtown and the University of Arizona campus. Teter released the first maps of his simulated nuclear strikes in December, never realizing how relevant they would soon become. The city was an inviting nuclear target almost from the start of the Cold War. Davis-Monthan and the defense industry saw to that.
By 1963, Tucson was surrounded by 18 of the underground facilities, each capable of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile in less than an hour and hitting a target almost anywhere in the Soviet Union with a nuclear warhead 600 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Nuclear destruction remained a concern in 1981, when then-Pima County Supervisor David Yetman described Tucson’s necklace of Titan missile sites as “a magnet of death.”
In the event of an attack, officials would refer instead to the Pima County Emergency Response Plan, which Evans described as “our guiding document for all emergencies.”
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