On 4/18/2022 11:56 PM, Pan Szymanowski wrote:
> Sergey Babkin <
sab...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Некая украинская тетечка в Америке решила для пенсии купить домик в окрестностях
>> Одессы. И как раз в феврале занималась его ремонтом. Когда к ней прилитела
>> первая ракета, она решила, что надо скорее искать рабочих заканчивать ремонт. Но
>> ракета оказалась не последняя. Домик она, как оказалось, купила на территории
>> бывшей военной базы, которая видимо на русских картах все еще помечена как
>> военная база. Тетечка вовремя удрала, о судьбе домика неизвестно.
>>
>> -СБ
> 
> Надо покупать в Одессе, Миссури. Есть тут такая дыра с 5К населения.
> Но, по крайней мере, ракеты туда не долетают.
The nuclear missile next door
What it’s like to live with a bomb stronger than 20 Hiroshimas in a time 
of rising worldwide tensions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/17/buried-nuclear-missile-silo-montana/
Ed turned the TV off and looked out the window at miles of open prairie, 
where the wind rattled against their barn and blew dust clouds across 
Butcher Road. Ed’s family had been on this land since his grandparents 
homesteaded here in 1913, but rarely had life on the ranch felt so 
precarious. Their land was parched by record-breaking drought, neglected 
by a pandemic work shortage, scarred by recent wildfires, and now also 
connected in its own unique way to a war across the world. “I wonder 
sometimes what else could go wrong,” Ed said, as he looked over a hill 
toward the west end of their ranch, where an active U.S. government 
nuclear missile was buried just beneath the cow pasture.
“Do you think they’ll ever shoot it up into the sky?” Pam asked.
“I used to say, ‘No way,’ ” Ed said. “Now it’s more like, ‘Please God, 
don’t let us be here to see it.’ ”
The missile was called a Minuteman III, and the launch site had been on 
their property since the Cold War, when the Air Force paid $150 for one 
acre of their land as it installed an arsenal of nuclear weapons across 
the rural West. About 400 of those missiles remain active and ready to 
launch at a few seconds notice in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, 
Colorado and Nebraska.