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Originally Posted by armorand93
Wouldn't the air base be first hit, since its more strategically important?
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Depends on what the goal is. The original premise of the Skynet attack was that it basically took over 1980s Soviet nukes to take us out. This was in the days when a city like Winnipeg quite probably had 2 or 3 nukes dedicated to it (there were 10s of thousands available, after all). They most certainly had at least one nuke headed directly towards the centre of every major metropolitan city in North America. As well as military targets.
In a more thought out Skynet scenario - the machines would want to kill as many of us as possible. It would be even MORE likely that they'd just target the human population. Quite possibly in preference to military targets. What use is an air base when your AI is distributed amongst millions of computers around the world? Who do you attack with your planes?
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Also, both Downtowns (Winnipeg and Calgary) would be good places to hide, with Calgarys massive LRT tunnel stub, and Winnipegs ridiculously large amount of Downtown basements with tunnels and stuff.
And I know. Doing the calculations on my house with some web simulator, seems even in the range of a Hiroshima bomb on Portage and Main, my 1918 wooden house wouldn't last a SECOND.
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Run the sims against a shallowly underground, non-reinforced tunnel - using a 1-10+ megaton bomb. The P&M concourse would at the very least collapse from the impact, but quite likely you'd have a pretty decent crater there as well. Even if by some miracle Trizec etc had built these to bomb-proof standards... they're not very deep, and more importantly they're not airtight. You might survive a few hours (if the firestorm doesn't asphyxiate you first), and then die of massive radiation poisoning.
"Bomb shelters" are mostly likely only useful as fallout shelters. And one at Ground Zero would almost certainly not do squat for you. Now, if the missile went off course and took out Charleswood... then yeah, they're a start