Are you prepared for nuclear war?

[338Shooter]

Traffic would be horrible. I think the best chance for survival would be if you lived in the pan handle.

Pantex in Amarillo makes that area a target as well.

 

[Mitch Rapp]

Not trying to be a jerk, but it is "Ordnance", not "Ordinance". I have been an Army Ordnance Corps instructor for the past 28 years and it is just a pet peeve of mine when it is spelled wrong.

I thought that was it, but my spellcheck told me I was wrong. Won't let it do that again.

 

[CAR-AR-M16]

I thought that was it, but my spellcheck told me I was wrong. Won't let it do that again.

Actually your spell check is not completely wrong.

An ordinance is a municipal or county law
Ordnance is a mass noun referring to military materials such as weapons, ammunition, equipment, and vehicles.

Again, no offense to you was intended.

 

[SMS]

Nuclear War Survival Skills (free book) here:http://www.oism.org/nwss/
Soviet strategic rocket forces will for sure target Tinker and Altus. Airports in Tulsa and OKC possible. Vance possible. Ft Sill and Mcalester, not strategic targets. If sub-launched from the gulf, very little warning time. Have a look at the book....

Neat little relic from the cold war!

Altus is just a training base now, no longer a SAC or TAC asset with bombers etc...so I'd be surprised if it was still on a primary targetting list.

 

[onearmedman]

Also keep in mind that targets in OK will be airburst, 550kt prob, that will produce minimal fallout.

Myth: Fallout radiation from a nuclear war would poison the air and all parts of the environment. It would kill everyone. (This is the demoralizing message of On the Beach and many similar pseudoscientific books and articles.)

 

[Johnjosiah]

Yes my intent was that it would get over fast.

Do a google search for an article in the New England Journal of Medicine on the effects of a nuclear explosion by distance from the epicenter. It was around 1963. If I can find a free link I will post it. Also a google search for "An epistemology of nuclear weapons effects." Will give some good results.

 

[ratski]

Myth: Fallout radiation from a nuclear war would poison the air and all parts of the environment. It would kill everyone. (This is the demoralizing message of On the Beach and many similar pseudoscientific books and articles.)

While this was a good book, it had to have been one of the single most depressing movies I ever saw when I was a kid. Still depressing. Still a good movie.

Dave

 

[n8thegr8]

I don't see why tinker would be a very big strategic target, it's mostly just a sustainment/maintenance facility. Long term it might hurt, but there's not a lot of high value assets stationed there.

 

[SMS]

I don't see why tinker would be a very big strategic target, it's mostly just a sustainment/maintenance facility. Long term it might hurt, but there's not a lot of high value assets stationed there.

AWACS and TACAMO are pretty high value.....

 

[kinggabby]

AWACS and TACAMO are pretty high value.....

Exact reason why Tinker would be ground Zero. As for me hmmm slow painful death due to radiation exposure or vaporized ? Fast trip to Tinker and sit as close to the base as possible. Pop open a beer and some cheese and enjoy being toast.