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Safest places to canoe in the USA after a nuclear war

Glenn MacGrady

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The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency probably didn't have canoeing in mind when they produced this map that shows which places in the USA would be blown to bits, burned to ashes, or contaminated by radioactive fallout after a full-scale nuclear exchange. But it looks like the canoeing waters of Maine, Minnesota, and northern Wisconsin and Michigan will be pretty safe.

That is, if you prefer black flies to nuclear bombs. Could be a close call.


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Or Canada?

Southwest Texas should one need to stay warm. I’m actually in a minor fallout area. If all my mango trees hadn’t succumbed to the recent spate of 26 degrees, I might even have something to eat stored up.
 
When I was in the Air Force, flying with the Strategic Air Command (specializing in nuclear delivery systems), we were definitely a target at our base not far from the southwestern corner of the Adirondacks. We knew that not only was the base itself a target, but so was the area several miles off the north end of the runway, to catch departing already airborne bombers. That direction happened to be on the way to both my and my wife's home town families about 50 miles away. i told her that if the big one blew, definitely do not go that way, but to head directly east into the Adirondacks or west toward Lake Ontario instead. Not that it would have mattered much or made any difference in the long run.
 
jdeerfoot said:
Missile silos.
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Glenn MacGrady said:
We certainly have a lot of military targets in Montana, North Dakota and southeastern Wyoming. What are they?
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As with Offutt (SAC home base), Elsworth, Whiteman (home of the B2 bomber), FE Warren, Malmstrom, and Minot Air Force bases ("why not Minot? Freezin's the reason"). These are Bbmber, Tanker air refueler, and ICBM missile launch bases. They are situated far from the coast line to provide maximum warning and response time before being struck from sub launch missile attacks. Post WWII and Cold war thinking.

On SAC bases there and also closer to the coast, air flight crews lived in the Alert Facility immediately adjacent to their parked aircraft for a week at a time on a rotating basis. I remember a few times when tensions were so extra high that we literally lived on board the aircraft to save the 30 seconds that it takes to run from the facility tunnels to the aircraft, so that we could get off the ground that much faster. Watch the 1955 movie "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart for a Hollywood rendition of what it was like.
 
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