Will there be a nuclear strike in your lifetime?

[The Valkyrie]

Anywhere is the right area if the rock is 10 miles across.

True, but with some locations, like the white house, a direct hit is the only guarantee.

Sometimes cockroaches survive...

[Seraphina]

Lets bring back air raid drills with duck and cover. That was such a fun time in grade school.

My high school back in New York, which was built in the 1950s, had a bomb shelter. Probably wouldn't have helped much in an actual nuclear war, though. I graduated from high school in '89 so a nuclear war between the US and the USSR wasn't exactly a quaint notion yet while I was there.

I heard the school re-purposed it in the 90s - maybe they need to dust it off and bring it back to it's original purpose.

-Teresa

[vorlon13]

Just in the paper today is an article about possibly spending $85,000,000,000 on replacing the US Minuteman missiles since they are so archaic and rickety not replacing them (while keeping them on alert) is actually more expensive than replacing them.

[ignoramus]

Everyone bear in mind that we are just evolved apes.
We will always sling shit at each other. It's in our DNA.
With technology, the nuclear shit hurts a little more, that's all.

[Anomalocaris]

Everyone bear in mind that we are just evolved apes.
We will always sling shit at each other. It's in our DNA.
With technology, the nuclear shit hurts a little more, that's all.

Yeah, incineration just hurt a little more than a flesh wound, that's all.

[Fireball]

I'd like to think that the officer carrying the "football" will use their sidearm (if carried, I dunno) to good effect, if the loofa-faced shitgoblin orders a nuclear strike.