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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bond, James Bond: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: Depending a bit on how WWIII was fought, I find it quite plausible that the biggest cities would have had better odds of survival than the smaller ones. There could have been advanced missile defenses in place, but they'd have protected Washington better than Tuscaloosa. Or bioweapons might have been unleashed to kill city populations, but their delivery systems would have inflicted relatively little physical damage. Enough perhaps to level a small city, but not a large one. __________________________________________________ Your theory would also fit with a Counterforce Strike. It's designed to take out as much military hardware and personnel as possible (especially nuclear weapons silos) while limiting civilian casualties as best as can be done considering many military bases are located within the heart of or on the outskirts of major cities like San Diego and San Francisco, etc. __________________________________________________ Riker did insist that "major cities were destroyed". Yet we never saw any hint of war damage to the real estate in any episode or movie. Perhaps the bioweapon theory is the best angle here. Or perhaps instead of nukes, the parties used orbital bombardment techniques that destroyed cities block by block, skipping some blocks and resulting in the skylines we witness in TNG. __________________________________________________ There are a heck of a lot more open green areas in the future cities then there are now. This could be because the buildings they stood under were destroyed and have been covered over. There are far less and more widely spaced structures then modern cities. To add to the above list there is also the (major) city of Mojave, California as shown in "The Cage". Santa Monica, California in "Future's End". Upstate New York is fine because Archer was born there according to "North Star". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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