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re: For people born before 1992, how close was your hometown to a direct Soviet ICBM strike?
Posted on 3/16/21 at 11:26 pm to udtiger
Posted on 3/16/21 at 11:26 pm to udtiger
quote:
Yep.
BR was always a first-strike objective.
It’s so weird how people want to believe their town is big time so they act like it’s target #1 for an attack.
After the Cold War ended we saw it right after 9/11 when everyone acted like their town was next on Al Qaeda’s list.
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Posted on 3/17/21 at 12:24 am to The Boat
quote:
It’s so weird how people want to believe their town is big time so they act like it’s target #1 for an attack.
After the Cold War ended we saw it right after 9/11 when everyone acted like their town was next on Al Qaeda’s list.
Baton Rouge was always on the Soviet Nuke list. More ya know.
This post was edited on 3/17/21 at 12:27 am
Posted on 3/17/21 at 8:37 am to The Boat
quote:
quote:
Yep.
BR was always a first-strike objective.
It’s so weird how people want to believe their town is big time so they act like it’s target #1 for an attack.
1) Exxon - biggest aviation fuel refinery at the time
2) I-10 and US-190 bridges - cuts E-W transportation for major interstate and federal highway as well as the only crossings over the Mississippi River between Natchez, MS and Donaldsonville (Audubon Bridge wasn't built yet, but would have been taken out with the bomb hitting River Bend)
Those alone put BR on the 1st strike list.
Add to that
3) Port of Baton Rouge
4) Bauxite mounds/aluminum stockpile off N. Sherwood
This post was edited on 3/17/21 at 10:34 am
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