///AMG
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Thanks, Mike. That's really very heady when one ponders such a scenario and the consequences. I remember once upon a time reading about the several special underground bunkers built for certain individuals/groups from DC who would be scurried away to them, the different communication systems in place and their back-up systems, various ships and their roles, SAC, etc. It was very sobering. I can't imagine how the airmen, the sailors, the ground crews, etc. must have felt and their thoughts when they had their various drills. Damn.
I've always been pretty fascinated with it. Was born in early '83, I guess maybe the coldest part of the cold war, and remember only the last few years when things had thawed. But I've always found the post detente build up to be pretty interesting. When we were in port in Turkey on the way to the mideast and Ukraine flared up, I will say that there was a good drunken night (after rumors of us going there were abound) where I pretty much admitted that I wasn't ever going home and that we would likely start WWIII. Obviously did not happen, and maybe the booze made me overly dramatic in the moment, but it was a weird flash back to that time in my mind. As for the bombers flushing out to their SIOP routes, one can only imagine that they would had have precious minutes to egress to nowhere (maybe bail out in the Indian Ocean?) before our minutemen and peacekeepers started detonating right below them. Scary thought