dmccarty
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Are you sure?
The military has a habit of hiding things so one can never be sure. That, and there is this nasty little thing called nuclear fallout that can travel for hundreds or even thousands of miles, depending on the prevailing winds.
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File:Fallout map USA (FEMA).jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That map is very odd. Notice it says "Sample" in the bottom left.
The plume from Tampa FLA, makes since if ONLY McDill was hit. I assume the plume off Miami was from the air base that used to be at Homestead. In a full exchange me thinks there would be quite a few more red streaks from the cities. In NC Ft Bragg/Pope aka Fayetteville is not red. The plume on the coast seems to be from Charleston and not from a strike on Camp Lejune and Goldsboro would certainly be hit because of Seymour Johnson.
My guess is they assumed nuke strikes only on SAC bases and missle sites but even that does not make total sense to me.
The book, "Alas Babylon" was about a post nuclear exchange world set in FLA. The book was set in the early 60s and I thought that the town was modeled on Ft. Myers which was a small little town in the middle of no where. Wikipedia says the town in the book was Mt Dora. Ft Myers was a good place to survive because there would be little to no fall out but Mt Dora I think would get fallout from Tampa and maybe Orlando. Anywho. :laughing:
I need to reread the book since the Florida described in the book is GONE, regardless of which small town was use as a model, buried under concrete and condos...
Later,
Dan