When I was a young man, maybe three or four years old as my mother would tell the story, she was up late one night watching television after I had fallen asleep. My father, in the Air Force stationed in Panama, had come home late as seemed to be the schedule.
He had found out the next duty station that he (and the whole family) was going to be stationed to. Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska. The headquarters of Strategic Air Command. My mother apparently flipped out on him. This was the early 1980s and the threat of nuclear war was a very real one. Didn’t help that mom was watching Fail Safe at the time she was told this news either.
As I have gotten older, I have learned to think that the threat of nuclear war was one of those things that was something you didn’t exactly have to deal with all that much anymore. Sure, North Korea threatens it every other Thursday, but nobody believes them.
Then comes Putin. As it seems right now, things aren’t exactly going the way that he thought that they would in Ukraine. So like all good bullies, he wants to try to exert what power he has. The power he has, could be a death blow to every single one of us if he isn’t stopped somehow..
From MDCREEKMORE:
A few days ago I was doing research on nuclear war, world war 3, and potential nuclear targets and safe distances from those target sites when I came across the NUKEMAP.
The U.S. nuclear target map is an interesting and unique program unlike other nuclear target maps because it lets you pick the target and what size nuclear device that the area you chose is hit with and then shows the likely effects and range of damage and death that would be caused by that nuclear device if it hit and detonated on your chosen target area.
The NukeMap looks to be fairly accurate as to the blast area, fallout and damage but of course all any U.S. Nuclear Target Map can do is represent an educated guess as to effects of a nuclear blast from and to a given area.
If you’re curious to know if you’re living in a nuclear death zone then go over and give the NukeMap a try if nothing else you’ll be entertained for a few minutes. Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the page and look to the right side and click the “Don’t log usage data” before choosing and nuking your target.
I used the NukeMap set to the closest possible nuclear target to my location, that is Oak Ridge Tennessee and according to the map I’m safe from the detonation blast of the largest Russia bomb the Tsar Bomba, however, thermal radiation could be an issue.
It is a frightening proposition because I remember when I lived in the town that I graduated high school from, it was years after the Air Force base was closed and we were always told that if the Russians had decided to drop the Big One, our town would have been one of the first hit based on the amount of military assets that were on the base. I never thought I would live to see the day that people who were my age when I last had to worry about these things would be worrying about these things…
From TS News:
Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to put Russia’s nuclear deterrence forces on high alert, as his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, announced a delegation from Kyiv would meet Russian officials without preconditions on his country’s border with Belarus.
On the fourth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv remained in Ukrainian control, while officials claimed they had repelled an attack on Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, where street fighting was taking place.
Thousands of Ukrainian civilians, mainly women and children, were fleeing from the Russian assault into neighbouring countries.
