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.