{"id":2000,"date":"2015-03-18T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2015-03-18T11:20:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:20:30","slug":"heres-an-interesting-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/heres-an-interesting-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s An Interesting Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/heres-an-interesting-map\/\" data-text=\"Here&#038;%238217;s An Interesting Map\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>If you are a baby boomer like I am, then you grew up in the era of duck &amp; cover drills and you remember Civil Defense sirens being tested on the first Friday of every month. \u00a0If you are not a baby boomer \u00a0let me explain. \u00a0Duck &amp; Cover drills were performed periodically in school, similar to a fire drill. \u00a0Except during a duck &amp; cover drill the teacher would exclaim &#8220;duck &amp; cover!&#8221; and the students immedately jumped under their desks and covered their heads with their hands. \u00a0This was to practice what we were to do when we saw the flash emitted by a detonating nuclear bomb. \u00a0Also we were warned not to look directly at the flash lest our eyeballs melt. \u00a0Good times. \u00a0Civil Defense sirens were basically air raid sirens to warn everyone to get ready to duck &amp; cover. \u00a0These were tested at 11:30 AM on the first Friday of every month, which I&#8217;m sure the Soviets figured would be the best time for an attack.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, the Civil Defense authorities that thought up duck &amp; cover and installed the sirens also put together a map of targets that the Soviets were likley to nuke when the shit got real:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2003\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nuke-target-map1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2003\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2003\" class=\"wp-image-2003 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nuke-target-map1-1024x648.gif\" alt=\"nuke target map\" width=\"1024\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nuke-target-map1-1024x648.gif 1024w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nuke-target-map1-150x95.gif 150w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nuke-target-map1-300x190.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They planned for every eventuality. \u00a0The triangles depict targets is an &#8220;500 warhead&#8221; scenario. \u00a0The black spots are &#8220;2000 warhead scenario&#8221; targets. \u00a0I happen to live within the intersection of two black spots that are within the intersected area of three triangles. \u00a0So I doubt the duck &amp; cover would have helped. \u00a0But I guess it&#8217;s better than telling a second grader to &#8220;bend over and kiss your ass good-bye&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet If you are a baby boomer like I am, then you grew up in the era of duck &amp; cover drills and you remember Civil Defense sirens being tested on the first Friday of every month. \u00a0If you are not a baby boomer \u00a0let&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}