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Old 04-16-2012, 08:39 PM
 
Location: Minot, ND
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I personally found the articles where fracking induced earthquakes to be interesting. I assume there are no major faults in ND...
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Old 04-16-2012, 08:41 PM
 
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Just move the nukes and create more jobs,,,,,lol
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Old 04-16-2012, 09:22 PM
 
Location: Cold Frozen North
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That's not really true. Population was not the primary concern when these locations were picked, geography was. They were placed there because they're close to the northern border, and they're far away from either coast. This was to allow them to be close as possible to the Soviet Union while being protected from sub launched attacks. When the silos use to go farther south there were silos close to larger cities. There used to be ones in Colorado just outside Greeley and near Cheyenne in Wyoming. Trust me, you're not getting in to one. The walls are 9 feet of concrete and there are several layers of blast doors. Those silos were designed to withstand near miss nuclear strikes.
I think you're right on the money Velvet. I read years ago that positioning the ICBMs along the Canadian border in states like Montana and North Dakota was done to be as close as possible to the USSR and that the missiles could shoot over the North Pole to reach their targets in the quickest possible time.
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Old 04-17-2012, 03:43 AM
 
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I just hope they don't launch the nukes while I'm trying to get some sleep in a rig camp nearby.

Nothing worse than being tired and dragging through a long 12 hours shift on a rig after being rudely woken up by loud noises. And especially just because someone in the White House got trigger happy, or they just felt they HAD to respond to a nuclear first strike on this country, rather than just "letting it go".

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