[SeanPlunk]

Check out this site, it shows what damage various nuclear weapons would do to the city of your choice. Pretty crazy stuff. If the Soviets had dropped a Tsar Bomba (largest nuke ever) on my house it would have destroyed all of the OC basically and all the way up to Los Angeles.

[Vettezuki]

Originally Posted by SeanPlunk

Check out this site, it shows what damage various nuclear weapons would do to the city of your choice. Pretty crazy stuff. If the Soviets had dropped a Tsar Bomba (largest nuke ever) on my house it would have destroyed all of the OC basically and all the way up to Los Angeles.

I grew up in Norco. Believe it or not we had both the Naval Weapons station fleet analysis for the Pacific fleet, and up until recently, Willey Labs. I knew people who worked at the weapons station and they said flat out we were a primary Soviet target . . . lights out, forget it.

I would either want:
a) nuke to go off right over my head
b) far enough away that I wouldn't be affected by immediate fall out and have a slight chance of eeking out a survival (think Wyoming, South Dakota, etc.)

[gsteichen]

Originally Posted by Vettezuki

I grew up in Norco. Believe it or not we had both the Naval Weapons station fleet analysis for the Pacific fleet, and up until recently, Willey Labs. I knew people who worked at the weapons station and they said flat out we were a primary Soviet target . . . lights out, forget it.

I would either want:
a) nuke to go off right over my head
b) far enough away that I wouldn't be affected by immediate fall out and have a slight chance of eeking out a survival (think Wyoming, South Dakota, etc.)

I'd want to be at ground zero, vaporized in nanoseconds. Living through the aftermath of a nuke would be horrible!

I was in 1st or 2nd grade during the Cuban missle crisis and boy did the government scare the shit out of us kids. Duck and cover, what to do if you came home and found that your mom had been nuked, etc. I had a recurring nightmare (thru my teens) that I was in bed asleep and was awakened by the flash and roar of a nuke. One night during the crisis I woke up and heard a siren and a plane going over the house and was convinced that it was all over! Looking back at the Cold War it's amazing that it never happened.

[Vettezuki]

Originally Posted by gsteichen

. . . Looking back at the Cold War it's amazing that it never happened.

People will say what they will, but the dissolution of the Soviet Union (thanks Ronny), has made the world a much safer place in terms of total thermonuclear destruction. It just wasn't the open threats like the Cuban Missile Crisis, but a few close calls because of mistakes in defense protocol. It'd be kind of a shame if the world ended because some bureaucrat forgot to pass along a critical piece of information . . . that almost happened at least once.

[silvertermi04]

Did u guys see the asteroid option, whao good bye north america, and central america.

[enkeivette]

If I had time to grab my keys... I could outrun it. Cambria would own that nuclear blast.

[BRUTAL64]