so what we are saying is that if a large explosion happened - non nuclear it could possible trigger the nukes as they were being transported? It will not trigger the nuke, but it may set of the explosives that are used to initiate a nuclear device. It's not much, but it's enough to spread the radio...
If you are looking for realism, your best bet is the conventional explosives going off. Maybe a NATO spec. ops mission gone bad? or something like that...
It's actually reasonable, if 4 missiles exploded and were at ground level... Assuming the winds are going that way... When the nuke goes off at ground level, it digs a massive crater, and everything that came out of the crater is blown into the air as radioactive dust (fallout). This can travel a ma...
I was mainly just going to scrub the preponderance of AA weapons of the Brooklyn to start with. I want a picture of the pre-war variant, and the only model is late-war...