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Vanity: US Nuclear Target Map
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Posted on 02/28/2022 5:01:33 PM PST by TigerClaws

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To: Fido969

>>I’d expect they have a shelf life of forever.

My bottle has a use-by date, but I agree with you. I know enough chemistry to be dangerous, and that salt bond is a STRONG one.


41 posted on 02/28/2022 5:40:02 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: TigerClaws

BTTT!!!


42 posted on 02/28/2022 5:41:39 PM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Fury

Saturday (starting the sundown before) is the best day to do your best! A little wine, fresh baked bread, a good meal, family, friends, rest, relax, re-create body and soul, read the weekly portion of the How to Live Life Manual, (DON’T GATHER FIREWOOD!!!), a nice nap, a leisurely stroll maybe, and some more good food!

BEST DAY TO DO YOUR BEST!

L’CHIAM!


43 posted on 02/28/2022 5:42:17 PM PST by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World)
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To: algore

I’ve lived a long life, and wouldn’t mind dying for standing my ground.


44 posted on 02/28/2022 5:50:49 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: TigerClaws

15 or 20 years ago a list was published showing the top 50 targets of the Russians. One was a building in downtown Dallas. The employees were issued backpacks with pouches of water, gloves, masks, a foil survival blanket, a whistle, and a few other things. It was suggested that the employees supplement with energy bars and other items they might find useful.


45 posted on 02/28/2022 5:53:13 PM PST by PAR35
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To: algore

Where is the nearest mine shaft? Do we have a mine shaft gap? Calling Dr. Strangelove.


46 posted on 02/28/2022 5:59:23 PM PST by silent majority rising ( )
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To: Fido969

I think i have one of the old yellow rad meters somehwere.

Like 25years ago I worked with an old russian physicist guy and I randomly had this big tungsten brick that i was going to gold plate or something,

Anyway the laser ir thermometers that were just getting popular like the fluke ones we had but they would not measure it for some reason.

I heated it up using hot water and took it to one of the old guys on 4/1 and asked for their opinion, a super heavy and almost hot metal rod in a lead box, i took it out and handed it to him, but the thermometer showed it to be room temperature.

He was not happy for a long time


47 posted on 02/28/2022 6:00:49 PM PST by algore
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To: TigerClaws

My first assignment was at Cheyenne Mountain, NORAD.

My little Univac 1106 was the MEBU, Mission Essential Back Up, that helped run the Missile Warning maps, especially for training scenarios.

I used to watch these exercises on the little video screen we had in the computer room (Not the big screens in Missile Warning) and think, “Someday, some idiot or mad man is really going to push the button and we’ll all be dead.”

I still dream about it.


48 posted on 02/28/2022 6:01:13 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: TigerClaws

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

You can nuke your favorite coordinates/city right here. Different payloads yields and off the shelf nukes. Fairly customizable and a fun little toy!


49 posted on 02/28/2022 6:01:33 PM PST by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: TigerClaws

I feel so much safer knowing I live under a red dot and President Retard is our leader 🤪


50 posted on 02/28/2022 6:03:48 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

[There were a lot of plots to kill Hitler before he could kill German and during the war. Most unfortunately, they all failed.]


Sure. But Hitler wasn’t literally going to kill them and Germany with the press of a button. I’m skeptical that even a single courtier is slavish enough to want to accompany Putin into Valhalla along with all of Russia because Putin is too petulant to slink back into Russia proper and count his gold like Kim Il-sung did after his army was almost destroyed during the Korean War, and he failed to unify the peninsula under his rule.


51 posted on 02/28/2022 6:03:54 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: 31R1O

Jason Robards is gettin’a workout in this thread.


52 posted on 02/28/2022 6:05:01 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: dfwgator

Amen...’Threads’ was way more disturbing than ‘The Day After’.


53 posted on 02/28/2022 6:05:44 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: TigerClaws

Bkmk


54 posted on 02/28/2022 6:12:13 PM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.)
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To: TigerClaws

The red blobs don’t seem to line up right with the map. Some are in the gulf. Looks like it may be skewed too low for some reason.


55 posted on 02/28/2022 6:19:10 PM PST by plain talk
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To: algore

Pure evil. I like you.


56 posted on 02/28/2022 6:20:50 PM PST by null and void (Sometimes I think all I'm ever doing is trying to convince myself I'm climbing in the trees)
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To: P.O.E.

“Long ago I worked in a GM parts factory that was a tertiary target.”

Had a job for a few years at Pearl Harbor, occasionally thought about all the megatonnage aimed at me. I knew there were Russian subs with SLBMs just waiting a few hundred miles away..


57 posted on 02/28/2022 6:21:23 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: hardspunned

I was alive in 1980. We had a Soviet ally 90 miles from Florida. Except for not sharing a land border, there’s not much difference.


58 posted on 02/28/2022 6:39:56 PM PST by Campion (All we are saying is give peace a chance.)
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To: hardspunned

I was alive in 1980. We had a Soviet ally 90 miles from Florida. Except for not sharing a land border, there’s not much difference.


59 posted on 02/28/2022 6:41:07 PM PST by Campion (All we are saying is give peace a chance.)
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To: hardspunned

I was stationed with the 56th Artillery Brigade in (then West) Germany. They were the unit that had the Pershing II missile. THAT used to be the missile the Soviets were scared of. It could hit Moscow from their firing points near the French border.

The way I understand it, if it looked like the Russians were going to come through the Fulda Gap, we were to head for our stations near the border with France. If the Russians looked like they were going to overrun Germany, the firing batteries would likely have launched, and then we were to head for France and run like hell.

‘The Day After” came out when I was over in Germany. Obviously, AFN Europe did NOT show it on TV. I didn’t get to see it until I was stationed back in America. I happened to watch it from someone’s videotape one night when I was on duty for CQ duty. I watched it, and I had to stop the tape when I go to the scene where the B-52’s were taking off. My heart was hammering so hard, I had to take a few minutes to calm down.


60 posted on 02/28/2022 7:02:17 PM PST by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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