User blog comment:Hlovell/About joining the Doomsday 1983 team/@comment-32656-20120630082902/@comment-3470087-20120630085956

Well, they would exist, but they wouldn't have been rebuilt. I personally think that every city, regardless of current population, has at least a good lot of history behind it in the timeline from September 26th, 1983 to the present day. Think about cities like Atlanta, which I do remember being mentioned in this timeline somewhere. Even a nuclear war can't make people instantly forget about whole cities, so there's bound to be something that would make the city prominent in one way or the other, even if it has been left decaying for 29 years after Doomsday.