{"id":177639,"date":"2023-12-07T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/6-us-cities-most-likely-at-risk-in-a-nuclear-attack"},"modified":"2023-12-07T12:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:31:45","slug":"6-us-cities-most-likely-at-risk-in-a-nuclear-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/6-us-cities-most-likely-at-risk-in-a-nuclear-attack","title":{"rendered":"6 US Cities Most Likely at Risk in a Nuclear Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/6-us-cities-most-likely-at-risk-in-a-nuclear-attack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to nightmare scenarios for the United States, a nuclear attack from a foreign power has to rank among the worst possible choices. While the likelihood of such a strike is low, that does not stop experts from trying to prepare for any possibility. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nuclear-bomb-targets-cities-us-disaster-plan-2019-12\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\"> A story by Business Insider<\/a> lists the following six cities as the most likely to be at risk in the vent of a future nuclear attack on the United States:<\/p>\n<p>1) Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>2) Houston, Texas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to nightmare scenarios for the United States, a nuclear attack from a foreign power has to rank among the worst possible choices. While the likelihood of such a strike is low, that does not stop experts from trying to prepare for any possibility. A story by Business Insider lists the following six [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}