Possible anti-missile system in our town

[Anomalocaris]

Meh... I've lived in a high value target area for most of my life and no one has nuked us yet.

Property values are probably not going to suffer unless the launchers are literally in sight of your yard. They might even increase a little based on new decent paying jobs coming to the area.

As far as threats go the one I would be most worried about is North Korea if they can manage to build a nuke weighing less than a ton. They would be more of a threat to the western part of the the US than Ohio though, and not a major threat to anyone.

The missile defense also needs to be deployed in a way that lends credence to our propaganda and posture towards Iran.

Ultimately the choice of Ohio is probably dictated by the need to cover east coast from an attack from china. China has publicly acknowledged the development of a new heavy mobile missile, long anticipated in the west, that can cover all of continental US from anywhere in china with up to 10 warheads each. The missile is fired from mobile cross country TELs and may be difficult or impossible to get with any preemptive strike before launch or during boost stage. So terminal defense might be the only conceivable defense against them.

Although with the ability to carry up to 10 warheads, just half dozen such missiles would completely saturate American missile defense as currently envisioned publicly.

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What are they going to shoot? Effigy of copulating giraffe couples?

That's probably why the unicorns didn't make it.....

Yeah, those spikes on their heads would make them trebuchet projectiles of first choice.