Higher priority Soviet target during Cold War: Hanford or Fairchild?

I’m going to say Fairchild.

I don’t know, of course. But it just seems like Hanford did not pose an immediate threat to the then Soviet Union. F.A.F.B., on the other hand, had the bombers. Plus we had ICBMs underground in the Spokane area for a time.

We had to be high on the target list.

If you did not grow up in or around Spokane, do you think your stomping grounds as a kid would have been on a Soviet Top 20 list?

I had a friend who grew up in South Bend, Indiana. She once told me that people there always assumed South Bend would have been one of the first places to get it in a nuclear exchange.

Why? Because of Notre Dame, she said.

Ahahahahahahaha. Seriously, that’s what she said.

Heck, Moses Lake (and Larson AFB) would have ranked higher than South Bend.

Good grief. I suspect B-52s and missiles would have been of slightly more concern to the comrades.

I know. It’s an odd thing about which to take pride. But the Cold War was an odd time.