Tartarus Sanctus wrote:

Well, my state has more atomic weapons than any other in the US. That
makes us both a target and some bad ass mutha fukkas.

ehhh...nah... not quite.

Do you see the first nuclear war was conducted as an arms race in the
middle of WW II. The combatants -eventually being Britain and the USA
on the one side and Germany and Japan on the other gave us the staus
quo and kept it despite recent developments in Asia

(Russia at the time taking advantage of both allies and axis research,
conducting little if any of their own.)

The first nuclear war ended the Second World War and started the third
one.

This was the Cold War and the participants developed their bombs with
the understanding that they would never be used on the opposite sides
but that each member of the allied states on whichever side, would test
their own weapons on their own people.

The exceptions to this rule were Britain which tested their weapons on
Australians and France which tested theirs on brown skinned people all
over the Pacific.

So any agglomeration of nuclear facilities made the occupants of such
regions the ones most at risk from their own governments not from any
others. The same might be said for the facilities which were to produce
such deadly weapons.

Hence the problems at the sites of early nuclear power stations. A
problem that has served to harm long term developments and acceptance
of the things.