Post-strike safe-haven planning favored places unlikely to be nuclear targets. The panel identifies the Falklands because Port Stanley was considered unlikely to be attacked, although planners had examined that possibility. A surviving nuclear submarine reaching the islands would also provide an immediate security asset. The follow-up explains why a remote territory could matter both as a refuge and as a node of surviving naval power.
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Why the Falklands could shelter a surviving submarine
The Falklands offered a remote post-strike refuge where an arriving submarine could support both recovery and local security.