I once had dinner at a friend's home which was just down the mountain from NORAD. It was pretty weird to sit on their deck and look up the mountain at the deceptively unimposing entrance. (They also had mountain lion tracks in the snow in their backyard...what a festive location)
No. It would be a joke to ask a rival nation like the ol' Soviet Union to disarm w/o responding in kind. We provide a nuclear umbrella for a good portion of the planet that ironically, provides stability, as opposed to rogue nations with nukes which create instability.
Dude, I'm not asking about anything but the article, I don't need you to recite Bush's foreing policy, I'm just asking about the article that started the thread, that's all.
Okay, maybe I misread the article at first, I now see what the other posts meant. I'm sorry, I'm moving a little slow today.
Man, haven't you ever heard of the REAL NORAD?? N...orth Dakota O...bligatory R...adioactive A...rmed D...evices
Yep. I was born and raised in Shreveport before coming to Tejas. While attending ROTC in high school, I learned of the huge nuclear weapons stockpile at Barksdale Air Force Base across the river in Bossier City. It is like the second largest air force base in the United States and home of the B-2 bomber. It will be one of the first targets in a nuclear confrontation. Clyde Fant Parkway is 6 or 8 lane highway on the Shreveport side of Red River from Barksdale that never seemed to have much traffic on it when I was there. I was told that it has nukes under it.
Nukes were placed in LA to deal with the Cuban crisis. Also, the thinking at the time was to place nukes far away from each other that if one area was taken out (North Daktoa), we would still have enough in another area to respond. It's also why we have a huge stockpile of nukes in Alaska. btw - anyone hear about N. Korea?
