[GOPJ]

We were all told that when the complex was built when Russian missile targeting wasn’t that accurate and that at least 15-30 minutes of survivability was all that was needed to use the ring-and-spoke C&C system to direct a nuclear response. Offutt AFB (B-52s), multiple outer ‘spoke’ sites with missiles, etc. and the like. None of us who would be caught inside when it hit expected to do anything but maybe survive for 30 days or so. Today? Targeting would demolish the entire complex in one hit, IMO.

What are the odds there wouldn't be time to respond?

[Alas Babylon!]

We used to joke and say after the war we’d call it Cheyenne Lake...

But I worked the MEBU, which stood for Missile (Warning) Essential Backup System... We acted as a graphics system for Missile Warning’s big screens. I’d actually start the scenarios for them from mag tape. I had a bank of small cathode ray tubes I had to monitor when they were doing scenarios...

I’d watch the missile and bomber tracks coming in from the Soviet Union and subs... All with real-time wind and weather data showing fallout patterns, time to impact, etc...

I really, truly believed it would happen someday. When the Soviets fell in 1991, I thought all of humanity had dodged a bullet...

Now under Biden, just damn it! Joe brought it all back!