The three Aussie locations which would likely be nuke targets in a US war with China and/or Russia

Pine Gap in the Northern territory Australia is the backbone of US/Aus signals intelligence and is what is used to detect nuclear missile launches from other countries because of its prime location to receive communications signals from all over the world. In 3 seperate reports in the 80s it was determined it would be a highly likely nuke target in a scrap with china, or even more likely with Russia, though ex Defence Minister Kim Beazely suggested the report was being somewhat optimistic in its damage estimate. Everyone is talking about Russia nuking America on somewhere in Europe, but in reality it would make sense to try to take out this base in the beginning stages of a nuclear war to cripple the ability at being able to identify further nuke launches.

Keep your eye on this neck of the woods; if something happens here, you know shit is about to go south really fast.

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