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Originally Posted by scottybuzz
thankyou thankyou, now that is the type of answer I am looking for 
bloody hell - a bomb shelter? wow. so in this case it was taken extremely seriously |
The irony of that situation is, at that time there was enough nuclear missles to destroy the entire world many times over, if the US went, Britain was going with us, and you guys weren't even concerned.
I'm only 38, and I remember practicing bomb drills in elementary school:
Get under your desk. Tuck your head down low, and kiss your ass goodbye.
I also remember the Emergency Broadcast system. It was supposed to give you fair warning that an attack was coming and to evacuate. It broadcast over the T.V. and from every fire house in the city. The first Sat. of every month, they would test the sirens.
I grew up worrying about Nuclear War as a child, because I lived in an industrial city, that produced tanks.
Now I live in Vegas and I'm surrounded by Gov't owned property, protected by armed MPs, with the authority to shoot trespassers.
One of the most important Tacticle Air Force Intelligence bases in the world.
The biggest supply of cash money on the planet.
The largest Nuclear waste facility in the world.
Area 51.
Minutes from the nuclear testing facilities, and a stockpile of aging chemical weapons.
N.O.R.A.D. close by in Colorado.
Siting on 9 fault lines connected to the San Andreas.
And the known stomping ground of some of the 9/11 hijackers.
I got my escape route planned. Always have.