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Related: About this forumRussia says this valley near Arlington is a nuclear target
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A saber-rattling Russian TV news broadcast on Sunday featured potential targets for submarine-launched nuclear missiles. Along with the Pentagon and Camp David near the other Washington, there was something closer to home: Naval Radio Station Jim Creek.
The radio station, surrounded by forest in the Cascade foothills about 10 miles east of Arlington, provides command-and-control communications for the Pacific submarine fleet. It was one of five sites that TV host Dmitry Kiselyov identified in a segment on the weekly news show Vesti Nedeli.
Naval Radio Station Jim Creek was built in 1953. According to an official Navy blog, its among only a handful of very-low-frequency radio transmitters capable of communicating with warships, submarines and aircraft. The station has an elaborate antenna an array of cables and wires hanging over a valley surrounded by 5,000 acres of forest. The facility also anchors a recreation area used mostly by military personnel.
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Russia says this valley near Arlington is a nuclear target (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Feb 2019
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. yeah, it seems obvious that the entire DC region would be carpet nuked.
flying rabbit
(4,639 posts)2. Washington state.nt
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)5. Ah thanks, didn't see that.
ribrepin
(1,726 posts)3. Geez Louise!
Last edited Wed Feb 27, 2019, 06:29 PM - Edit history (1)
I'm not that far from Jim Creek. Nice to know that I live in a target area.
ribrepin
(1,726 posts)4. I wonder how Russia even knows it there
Most people who don't live around here don't even know about it.