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Huntsville building nuclear bomb shelters

Submitted by rapture on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 8:16am.

I don't know if I should feel secure or scared:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070927/D8RU0NAG0.html

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - In an age of al-Qaida, sleeper cells and the threat of nuclear terrorism, Huntsville is dusting off its Cold War manual to create the nation's most ambitious fallout-shelter plan, featuring an abandoned mine big enough for 20,000 people to take cover underground.

Others would hunker down in college dorms, churches, libraries and research halls that planners hope will bring the community's shelter capacity to 300,000, or space for every man, woman and child in Huntsville and the surrounding county.

BTW: Local legend says that Huntsville had the third most ammount of nukes pointed at it during the Cold War.

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rapture wrote:BTW: Local

Submitted by Slayer on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 9:32am.

rapture wrote:
BTW: Local legend says that Huntsville had the third most ammount of nukes pointed at it during the Cold War.

Yeah, I have heard that many times from many people. That story is a little disconcerting... at least we will be prepared. :)



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I'd like to think there was

Submitted by D15AV0W3D on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 10:20am.

I'd like to think there was better intel and strategy in the old "motherland" than currently possessed by modern-day terrorists and sleeper-cells.

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There's probably not much

Submitted by Midnight on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 11:47am.

There's probably not much worse than surviving a nuclear blast to die of radiation poisoning.

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I'm moving.

Submitted by Mintz on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 2:38pm.

I'm moving.

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I'm not surprised

Submitted by Doughgeek on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 4:09pm.

I'm not surprised considering I went to high school in a fallout shelter. Good 'ole Butler....

Can't say I ever thought of Huntsville as best described by the words "out-of-the-way" though.

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