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Old 09-11-2012, 07:34 AM
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I guess it depends on the point of view of the TDM strike map as to whether or not the "above 1mt only" means only the 1mt+ targets were hit, or they're only bothering to show 1mt+ targets.

'cause honestly I can't see the Soviets letting Orlando get off without pasting MCO a couple of times. In T2k, if you take it as canon that there was no ODS/Gulf War, and the Cold War was still in full swing, the BRAC probably would've left the US Navy Nuclear Power School at the NTC open, which means a huge Navy base in downtown Orlando.

Plus, again, MCO* which was a B52 base during the Vietnam war.

That being said with where I lived in 1997, assuming a pair of 500kt, one aimed at downtown (airburst) and a ground-burst aimed at the airport runways...let's see...

Ground burst at MCO

and

Ground burst at NTC Orlando

Both "miss" the neighborhood I lived in in Altamonte Springs, but it hardly matters. Nuclear explosion dangers such as shockwaves, thermal pulse etc. don't stop at cookie-cutter lines...so...yeah, I'd be dead. If not I'd seriously consider taking my own life at that juncture.

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*=it is NOT "OIA" it will never be OIA, that is a frustrating mistake people continue to make...it is M. C. O.

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