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re: For people born before 1992, how close was your hometown to a direct Soviet ICBM strike?
Posted on 3/17/21 at 9:13 am to UndercoverBryologist
Posted on 3/17/21 at 9:13 am to UndercoverBryologist
We lived sw of Washington DC and always assumed that their direction guidances wouldn't be as sharp as they might be and they would get DC in the radiation cloud from us.
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Posted on 3/17/21 at 9:51 am to Gee Grenouille
I could be mistaken. It might have been the Germans who wanted to bomb Bogalusa.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 10:33 am to MISSOURI WALTZ
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Do you see the easternmost county in Missouri? I'd say we were damn close. During the Cuban missile crises our schools were sandbagged and all of us had to get notes signed by our parents stating what to do in case of a nuclear attack - either stay at school or hot foot it home. I was to run to my grandparents' basement one-half block away.
What is there that would've caused it to be a target?
Posted on 3/17/21 at 11:21 am to UndercoverBryologist
Live right on a black dot
Posted on 3/17/21 at 11:32 am to jlovel7
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Colorado has Cheyenne mountain. Aka NORAD. The bunker under that mountain is probably the safest place to be during a nuclear event. That’s why there’s so many concentrated on that area. I assume to basically make it impossible to leave if not totally just through even the ridiculous measures they have there.
Yeah NORAD could survive it. And they would get to come outside and get some fresh air in about 500,000 years.
Not sure why Tuscaloosa was in the purple triangle. I guess Russia hated us as much as the rest of the SEC.
(I can only assume we were a target for Hunt refinery and DCH hospital being a trauma center...)
If you want to see the effects of different nukes on a particular place....
Nuke map
This post was edited on 3/17/21 at 11:47 am
Posted on 3/17/21 at 11:45 am to UndercoverBryologist
My town would have been wiped off the map.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 11:45 am to UndercoverBryologist
Yes Baton Rouge
Posted on 3/17/21 at 11:48 am to UndercoverBryologist
Seems like Idaho would have been fine minus Boise
Posted on 3/17/21 at 11:49 am to dawgfan24348
Lots of missile silos out there,baw
Posted on 3/17/21 at 11:49 am to GetCocky11
There was a top-secret silo in Desoto Parish on...and this is not a joke...Missile Silo Road.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 11:52 am to CasualBystander
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There was a top-secret silo in Desoto Parish on...and this is not a joke...Missile Silo Road.
Talking about all those missile silos out in North Dakota and Montana...
Even if we got the jump on the Soviets with a fully undetected first strike, I'm sure the locals would not appreciate over 2000 of our own ICBMS taking off simultaneously.
Even from a distance of 100 miles from the silos, the noise would be infuriating.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 11:58 am to CasualBystander
Yep, seent it, Grand Cane I think?
Posted on 3/17/21 at 12:14 pm to UndercoverBryologist
right under one of those black dots
Posted on 3/17/21 at 12:31 pm to Lonnie Utah
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Bailey yard is in North Platte and is the world’s largest railroad classification yard. Hitting major transportation infrastructure.
Yeah good call - I forgot about that. I worked in NP for about two years and never got the opportunity to go visit it. Union Pacific basically runs that city now.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:19 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Oxford, Mississippi is comparatively speaking distant from any potential target compared to other SEC towns. Hell, even Fayettevill, Arkansas is a direct target in the 2000 warhead scenario.
Ole Miss...not a significant threat to the Soviet Union...or haven for commie sympathizers?
Ole Miss...not a significant threat to the Soviet Union...or haven for commie sympathizers?
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:22 pm to UndercoverBryologist
The great Russian boogieman
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:26 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I guess the shockwave/heat coming across the lake would've destroyed everything below Covington
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:48 pm to teke184
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What are the targets under the big masses of black dots? Clusters of ICBM silos?
I know that North Dakota had them
HAS not had. Minuteman III missiles are in silos all over the place there today. You drive right by them on the highways up there.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:51 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I remember looking up from under my desk during a bomb drill at a photo of Ronald Reagan that somebody had just put on the wall.
Circa 1984.
Circa 1984.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:54 pm to BeepNode
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I remember looking up from under my desk during a bomb drill at a photo of Ronald Reagan that somebody had just put on the wall.
Circa 1984.
As someone who has no vivid memory of the Cold War, bomb drills were still a thing as a late as 1984? I know they were a thing in the 50s and 60s. But they were still doing it in the 80s?
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