Are you ready for a nuclear holocaust? Hope you don't live in Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana or the Dakotas. North Dakota is particularly fun to look at.
I prefer to take my paranoia to a whole other level. For example, I'd usually not trust the so called 'ready' communities as by and large they have a great many gun nuts and security minded people, but not enough farmers, doctors, and teachers. They also tend to be very bad at actual organizing as they refuse to accept any leadership.
On the other hand, I want one of THESE!: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1186-mini-nuclear-reactor-could-power-apartment-blocks-.html
Maybe I'd get lucky and it would leak and kill the fire ants.
Heh, I notice they still indicate Loring Air Force Base as a prime target in Maine. It's been closed since 1994. I suppose the godless Communists might want to take out the Defense Department accounting office or the humvee garage that are operating on the site, but it seems unlikely somehow.
Perhaps the theory is that, with the fall of the Soviet Union, the targeting data for their nukes were never changed, and so still reflects pre-1989 targets?
(I've actually heard variations on that posited a time or two.)
The funny thing is, there IS a reactor in the Apex area. When I lived there I kept the government provided potassium iodide pills and such in my emergency pack. I also realized their evac plan was garbage and made my own. Then I found out my own plan worked GREAT, not for the reactor, but for the exploding chemical plant that covered the entire town in chlorine gas. I'm not saying we should all be hyper-paranoid, I'm just saying paranoia, properly applied has uses you'd NEVER think of...
Cool maps. I'm surprised that Bellingham, WA is shown as a potential target, though. There's nothing there worth nuking, except perhaps Bellis Fair Mall, as it is largely a retirement community (e.g., too many golf courses and excruciatingly slow traffic signals). I lived there briefly before moving to the Vancouver, Canada area.
Bellingham is actually a target of opportunity for US nuclear forces; in the event of a Commie attack, the Air Force will take the opportunity to nuke the peace activists and Linux freaks there in all the confusion and blame it on the Commies. It's part of Operation Obfuscated Payback.
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On the other hand, I want one of THESE!:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1186-mini-nuclear-reactor-could-power-apartment-blocks-.html
Maybe I'd get lucky and it would leak and kill the fire ants.
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http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070328.rmreguly0328/BNStory/specialROBmagazine/home
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(I've actually heard variations on that posited a time or two.)
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I left my nuked shadow in San Francisco...