Russia says this valley near Arlington is a nuclear target

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ARLINGTON — You don’t want to be on this list.

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, it’s 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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[Thomas Hurt]

1. yeah, it seems obvious that the entire DC region would be carpet nuked.

[flying rabbit]

2. Washington state.nt

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Ah thanks, didn't see that.

[ribrepin]

3. Geez Louise!

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I'm not that far from Jim Creek. Nice to know that I live in a target area.

[ribrepin]

4. I wonder how Russia even knows it there

Most people who don't live around here don't even know about it.