No, it was a fact of life in the 60's through the 80's that this was reality.
As a kid in the 60's we were taught to duck and cover at school. :) L>ike that would have done something. My father had also planned for using the basement to hold up in if we were attacked. Larry White Knight 1991 Crystal White #99 CSP Silver Bullet 1992 Silverstone #17 SM2 FM I+ Turbo Honey B 1992 Sunburst Yellow #99 SM2L JR Supercharger Whooosh 2004 Titanium Mazdaspeed MX-5 LowCountry Miata http://www.lowcountrymiataclub.net Masters Miata RAGS 074 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Bogart Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 10:51 AM To: Tony Cooper Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Dana Clevite vs. Federal Mogul Sealed Power rod bearings? (NPC) Is it just me, or did this make you uncomfortable.... On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Tony Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I spent my time in the in the mid 70's and early 80's while in the USAF at > the Cheyenne Mountain War Room (2500 ft underground) as well at the 8th AF > HQ War Room (Bunker). I participated in many war games. While Columbus was > a target in our games, so was every other American city over 100K > population. > > Typically 2000-3000 incoming war heads rained in the lower 48 in under 30 > minutes. (Think about where you'd place 50 nukes in each state - easy to > run out of targets!) Concentrations were most dense on both coasts, > Montana, N & S Dakota, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska & Kansas ( radar bases, > military bases, and missle silos). However every city over 100K had 2 nukes > aimed at it. Most infrastructure was targeted at well... Grand Coulee Dam, > Hoover Dam, etc as well at reconsitution locations, and coal and oil fired > electrical plants. > > Wasn't a lot left after 27 minutes.... > > Ross Kuhns wrote: > > Hmmm, I always wonder about that Bryan as I grew up in Columbus and we > always heard as kids that "Columbus was a top 5 target" for a ruskie nuke as > we have the supersecret Battelle institutute that does govt > projects/research and god knows what else. > > Urban legends; maybe that is just a human condition to create a rumor? maybe > Ohio was going to be wiped out first. > > > > > anyone else grow up in another "Top 10 Nuke Me" city? feel free to go > offlist. > > > > > Ross > > > > > ________________________________ > Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 06:14:05 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Dana Clevite vs. Federal Mogul Sealed Power rod bearings? > To: [email protected] > > > Off topic... > > It's funny you should mention that. I grew up in Canton, OH, and the Timken > plant was the reason Canton was in the top 10 of targets the Russians would > have wiped off the map if push came to shove. Probably not nearly as > trouble by the time I was born, but it was a well-known fact. > > -Bryan > > --- On Sun, 8/3/08, Bob Bundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think with the Timken wheel bearings it was a material issue. 8 identical > bearings on a GTX two per corner I replaced them all with Timken didn't look > at them other than Timken was stamped on them I had two failures and I got > to looking closer. The two that failed on different corners were stamped > Timken Mexico. Two were stamped Timken Australia and the other 4 were > stamped Timken Japan. They all came out of boxes labeled Timken USA but its > really getting so nothing gets made in the USA any more. > > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Miatapower mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower > > > _______________________________________________ > Miatapower mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower > > _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
