http://www.greentechhistory.com/2009/11/when-the-whole-world-needs-to-be-quarantined-fantasy-architcture-and-nuclear-war/ America's two-century search for a more perfect power Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:12:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.greentechhistory.com/2009/11/when-the-whole-world-needs-to-be-quarantined-fantasy-architcture-and-nuclear-war/comment-page-1/#comment-1563 Kirk Sorensen Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:49:35 +0000 http://www.greentechhistory.com/?p=1523#comment-1563 Recently I learned that essentially all of our and their nuclear missiles during the Cold War were targeted at each other's missile launch sites, not major cities, which would have meant that in a full-scale nuclear exchange Montana and North Dakota and Kazakhstan would have been nuked many times over but most of the population of the US would not have been affected by the blast waves. It kind of changes my view of the situation, which was heavily shaped as a kid by movies like "WarGames" that explicitly showed major cities and population centers targeted and destroyed. Recently I learned that essentially all of our and their nuclear missiles during the Cold War were targeted at each other’s missile launch sites, not major cities, which would have meant that in a full-scale nuclear exchange Montana and North Dakota and Kazakhstan would have been nuked many times over but most of the population of the US would not have been affected by the blast waves. It kind of changes my view of the situation, which was heavily shaped as a kid by movies like “WarGames” that explicitly showed major cities and population centers targeted and destroyed.

]]> http://www.greentechhistory.com/2009/11/when-the-whole-world-needs-to-be-quarantined-fantasy-architcture-and-nuclear-war/comment-page-1/#comment-1558 Lauren Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:47:55 +0000 http://www.greentechhistory.com/?p=1523#comment-1558 Do you really need a license to be an interior designer? Do you really need a license to be an interior designer?

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