Posted: 9/16/2010 5:13:36 PM EDT
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I found this over in the survival section. I grew up in MO and have a good idea what most of these targets would be. Anyone know what the two targets are between Jefferson City and St Louis? The only thing I can think of are the bridges at Herman and Washington.
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Most people don't realise the appeal of KC as a major target. While there are numerous failsafes and redundancies in place Taking out a few cities (Kansas City being a key target in this case) would absolutely cripple the US's communication infrastructure. All the old major Telco players have have came and went through KC didn't have their infrastructure moved just because they were swallowed up by the next fledgling monopoly (heres looking at you ATT and Sprint).
KC does have an interesting feature though, much of this infrastructure is buried in the caves along with who knows what else. So to properly destroy it,it will take a large blast. I can list off a couple other cities that would go a long way towards this, but I might have said enough to end up on a list already 
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STL is a target because of Boeing and their Electronic Warfare Center. There's also the geomapping. Scott AFB, Olin, the rocket manutfacturing plant who's name I cant remember but was part of a disaster drill we did 3 years ago... Makes me feel GREAT living in Warrensburg.
I went to college there and started out as a deputy in Johnson County...use to laugh about people planning for nuclear attack. My plan was grab a honey and after giving her the best 1 minute of her life (including cuddling) grab a lawn chair and have a beer. Where were we going to go? |
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Not too much to worry about. Total war with lots of nukes flying is not even close to the top of the list of worries now.
Now give a terrorist a surplus Russian briefcase bomb and let him fly a light aircraft over a city and bang.... Bad day for all involved. Another thing about KC and STL, they are MAJOR transportation hubs. Trains, cars, trucks, airports, you name it. Nothing moves when the bridges go down. |
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Surprised that Columbia is not on the map. Many don't realize that Columbia has one of the largest non-power producing nuclear research reactors in the country. FH i thought that was rolla, not columbia that had that. there is a power producing plant not too far though |
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Not too much to worry about. Total war with lots of nukes flying is not even close to the top of the list of worries now. Now give a terrorist a surplus Russian briefcase bomb and let him fly a light aircraft over a city and bang.... Bad day for all involved. Another thing about KC and STL, they are MAJOR transportation hubs. Trains, cars, trucks, airports, you name it. Nothing moves when the bridges go down. Anything happens in one of those cities, or folks start seeing their gubberment checks bounce, and there certainly would be chaos in the streets... not years long, IMO, but long enough to make it nice to have a bunch of folks able to protect the perimeters in 4 hour shifts 24/7. I really don't think that 'community center' filled with 2a Folks is a bad idea. I know I can't be the only dude who can't convince his wife that we need 1" thick steel shutters for all the windows... |
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not to mention all our military maps are made in downtown st louis . also where most of our spy satilite photos are read . Actually Arnold, MO used to be downtown but they moved it years ago. Its funny here's this government fortress looking building right in the middle of a sprawling suburb. |
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sorry you are wrong . arnold is just offices and record center the good stuff happens downtown. I"m not sure who told you that but the presses that print every map that gets handed to every solidier in the field are printed at the NIMA building in Arnold. |
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Not sure if Rolla has a research reactor or not but Columbia Does. I know rolla does, I've been in it. +1 +1 had to do a chemistry lab in it. It is good to see other folks have escaped from Rolla. I figure prison would be easy after my time there. 
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Not sure if Rolla has a research reactor or not but Columbia Does. I know rolla does, I've been in it. Columbia has one too, a big one. It's just south of the stadium. It's a white building on "Reactor Field". I went to grad school with someone that works there. I imagine the other targets were the Calloway Co nuclear plant, the 2-3 powerplants in STL, Defense Mapping in downtown, Boeing @ Lambert, and the cruise missile plant in St. Charles. Back in the day, there were four Nike missile defense bases in STL. 1: Robertsville, MO. It's now a middle school. Classrooms in the barracks, buses parked on the launch pad, a neighborhood uses the runway as a street, and a glass/plexiglass testing & reasearch company uses the radar tower & buildings. 2. Hecker, IL. The facility is gone, but you can still see the tubes. 3. Marine, IL. Everything is demolished, but a trucking company uses the launch pad to park trucks. 4. Grafton, IL. All but gone, buried in the woods of Pierre Marquette State Park. |
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I don't think the western one is Fulton, Nuke Plant. They didn't finish until about 1980. Don't know when the map was made though. Fulton is only 25 miles east of Columbia. Went to school in Fulton and worked at the plant during the construction phase. you a westminster grad? you weren't in one of the frat houses were you? |
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now i actually feel good about living in Springfield!! Maybe i should start thinking "bug in" instead of "bug out" 90% of the time stayin put and fortifing your position and defending is better than trying to get somewhere. Since Springfield is likely not to flood(ala new Orleans - Katrina) there isn't reay a reason your house/apartment can't become Ft. Reaper when the time comes. |