Leg, fair points.
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
How will the general population react when they hear Ft Knox has been emptied? Ft Knox, the place where the most valuable papers in the US are stored in times of trouble (aka the original constitution).
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In general, this leads into one of the points in the T2K timeline that I find myself spending a lot of time mulling over...namely what happens in terms of public reaction, Government planning etc in the period between the first use of tac nukes in the summer and the strategic exchange in November?
I've always thought it possible - maybe even probable - that the public reaction is likely to be panic in any event, and there would be a mass exodus from major population centres during July and August as people fear the worst. Granted, as the summer goes on without a full scale exchange many people would then return to their homes. I seem to recall Howling Wilderness alludes to this and I do remember Webstral referring to what he calls "The Alert" period in some of his pieces.
So to come back to the specific point of Fort Knox, I think there's likely to be widespread panic anyway...and I still think the US Government (and other Governments) have to plan for the worst case scenario...so that means implementing whatever contingency plans they have. As you rightly state it would be a huge logistical excercise to move all of the gold out of Fort Knox, but I kepp coming back to the same point, namely the challenge of moving it has to be weighed (no pun intended
) against the risks involved in leaving it where it is.
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It's also very likely some people will know where it's take to as well. That much transportation is going to raise a few eyebrows - it's not something that's likely to be forgotten in a hurry.
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Agreed, although perhaps not all of the gold goes to the same place. Either way, I don't think that's a dealbreaker when the alternative is the risk of your national gold reserves being lost completely.