Concept of deterrence

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The map was undoubtedly a means of calming American anxieties (or fomenting the feelings of long term risk) during a particularly sensitive time of the cold war.

Concept of deterrence (Huge map zoom)

Shows you just how weird I am, I guess.

I don't find the map calming at all. It makes me want to immediately look at the maps that show all the various points where we can be struck by our enemies. I don't think for one second they are just going to sit there and allow themselves to be attacked and not fight back.

Right now, Russia can strike anywhere in the US. Korea is limited to the Left Coast, Hawaii, and Alaska, but Russia can tag us anywhere they want to. I'm not sure of the Chinese capability.

I would expect Washington DC to be radioactive dust suspended in the atmosphere and drifting eastward on the prevailing winds somewhere between 10 and 15 minutes into the war. Russia can tag London about 5 minutes in, from launch, so I'm extrapolating from that. Missile silos like the ones in the Dakotas are hardened, but will be targeted all the same - yeah, even way out there in the hinterlands. Same for airports, both military and civilian. Remember, a Boeing 747 is just a bomber with a flashy paint job to the Russians.

Ditto military installations, government centers, and manufacturing centers.

I remember all the "snow route" signs in Northern VA. Those were not snow routes, they were marked trails from DC into underground shelters in WV for government officials. They had coded directions on the back of each sign. It so happens that I know some folks who are unhappy enough to drop bridges and crater roadways in the event that the balloon goes up, to prevent those government lackeys from getting to their cushy shelters. The theory is, "you started this shit, you don't get to run away and hide in a cushy space - you're gonna scrap to survive it the same as your citizenry".

Helicopter rides in instead of roadways? Do you know what can be done to a chopper with a concrete filled coffee can and about 10 feet of aircraft cable attached to it when you launch it up into the rotors? Nope, that ain't a solution, either.

I'd hate to be one of the "Keepers" that man those shelters when they think it's safe to come back out. It ain't gonna be. I don't care how many guns they have in there - it ain't gonna be enough for all the pissed off citizens waiting for them to pop the hatch. The Russians and their UN troops coming in to "help" ain't going to be all they need to worry over.

The sad facts of life are that there are just folks out there who give no shits about "continuity of government" when that government is doing it's level damndest to destroy a nation and it's citizens. The folks doing that ain't gonna have the special privileges in place that they thought they did.

Some times, life sucks like that when you're trying to destroy a world.

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Clinton sold or gave guidance hardware/software to China for their missiles.. Now they land on the moon. I read or saw how under Obama we went from Merv war heads down to one war head per ICBM ?? and most of our stuff is 30 years old with a warranty of only 10 years !!

Maybe this is why there are not more ETs flying around... an advanced civilization manages to destroy themselves by their own tribal warcraft