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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
My guess is the US probably targeted us as well, just for the practise and just in case a decade down the track we switched sides for some reason - not like the US were short of missiles either, and targeting doesn't automatically mean launching.
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And not just during the Cold War, either.
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Why do you think I moved to Tasmania where the air is the cleanest in the world and there's no nuke targets?  |
In fact, that subject came up recently. As a card-carrying member of the NRA and a former MI squint, I’m invited periodically to provide feedback on our nuclear target list. (That NRA lobby really knows how to influence people and policy!) There is now a target identifier with the label “Legbreaker’s house”. When asked why I wanted to invest a 20Mt warhead on a ground burst in the Australian boonies, I replied,
“If we’re making any plans at all to hit Australia, this guy has to go. He’s not the sort we want to leave alive. I say we nuke the site into orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”