| Comment | This is essentially right. It'd likely be hit by a couple of 2-3 megaton warheads, cratering the base and the shoreside hills by the loch. Since they'd be aiming to get at the stuff underneath the ground at Faslane, my guess is it'd be a ground burst/bunker buster, not an air burst, which wouldn't be good at all... this means drastically more radioactive fallout from all the contaminated debris flung up into the air.
The winds tend to pass eastward, so this would be deposited over the central belt and likely as far as the Aberdeenshire coast. Basically where everyone in Scotland lives.
Worth remembering though if this was because of a full scale nuclear war, Glasgow would be targeted too, so we'd all be toast anyway. |
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