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We're all scared of something, I suppose.
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Yeah a nice radius around each nuke site so it's not obvious
They arent exactly hidden. Just go for a drive in the missile field and you’ll see them, clearly marked and fenced. In fact, you can just google search for missile field maps and get all the location info, etc you could ever dream of. They arent hidden and they arent a secret. Good luck getting anywhere near them or doing anything with the knowledge of their location, though! They arent all that big, however. Maybe a few hundred sq. Ft of fenced area for most? Source- lived in Minot, ND. Have friends and family that are AF Missileers (key-turners).
Yeah, both sides of the cold war had satellite photo technology, so hiding a missile site would be very hard. It was also part of one of the many peace treaties that each side revealed the locations of missile bases to one another.
As I recall, they are far enough apart so you can’t easily nuke more then one at a time. Meaning you can destroy one but all the other ones will fuck you in in response.
Yep. They are 270 of them spread between 3 plots each about 12,000 square miles. One nuke isn't going to take out more than one of them at once assuming one managed to land before the US ones launched.
Nah, 400 sites across the 3 fields, about 150-200 at each. But, yea- 12,000sq miles is about the size of just the Malmstrom field and I’m pretty sure that’s a 200 site field. Some of the info on the nets is outdated because it’s still referring to the previous generation of missiles. So, anything about Minuteman III is “current”. Minuteman IIs arent used anymore. The silos are also designed to withstand a direct hit. Of course that’s “ehh..for the most part”, lol, but still…
And to echo a different commenter, all this info HAS to be public knowledge because of all the peace treaties. Different countries are always coming by and doing their own inspections to make sure we’re keeping our part of the agreements. And all the missiles sit targeted at oceans, never at any actual targets. Of course if the need to target and fire happened, places are likely lined up. But the saying “we got our missiles pointed at X country because of Y situation” isn’t quite accurate because of all this, lol.
You know, I didn't look into this at all after finding the meme, but I bet that could be their actual concern.
Those cites have fences going around. They are visible from satellites, regardless.