Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Goldsboro NC...well, two outta three ain't bad

[The Brain]

Let's not argue about silly things.

[Eddie Teach]

You admit nuclear fission is silly?

[Ideologue]

And what else do they put in the middle of nowhere?

In fairness, obviously I'd still be pretty likely dead in the event of a first strike.  Columbia is a government center and hosts an important military base.  I'd be double-dead in the event of a second countervalue strike, because Columbia is a government center, hosts an important military base, and is a major population center.  SC in general would be pretty heavily targeted because of Charleston's port facilities, the Savannah River Site, and the nuclear reactors (although we'd be somewhat less priority than during the Cold War, when we had an SSBN base).

But at least I don't have a Minuteman III in my back yard.

[The Brain]

You admit nuclear fission is silly?

Idea for novel: wiseguy dies horribly.

[The Brain]

I'm known locally as the Minuteman.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm known locally as the Minuteman.

That's impressive.  What's your secret?

[Eddie Teach]

You admit nuclear fission is silly?

Idea for novel: wiseguy dies horribly.

Forget about it.

[The Brain]

I'm known locally as the Minuteman.

That's impressive.  What's your secret?

I think about basketball.

[DGuller]

I'm known locally as the Minuteman.

[Syt]

You admit nuclear fission is silly?

Idea for novel: wiseguy dies horribly.

Forget about it.

I think you mean: Fuggeddaboutit.

[KRonn]

BTW, it is no accident that the book limits itself to incidents between 1950 and 1968.  I can attest to the fact that the underestimation of the risks in 1950 had been corrected by 1968 (though I, obviously, went to the school many years later).  Even in the early '80s, though, learning what was going on at the dawn of nuclear weapons deployment was scary stuff.

Wow, this all is very scary stuff, agreed. Nations with nukes during those times appear to have averted disaster by luck in so many cases. 

[Capetan Mihali]

I'm known locally as the Minuteman.

That's impressive.  What's your secret?

I think about basketball.

[KRonn]

Show of hands: who ever did duck and cover drills in school?

I'm sure I did the drills but I don't remember much about doing them.

[Caliga]

I don't remember having to do them at all.  We did have to do a few tornado drills (like maybe once a year) which we all made jokes about, since tornadoes in eastern Pennsylvania are very rare.

Ironically, like 10 years ago a tornado actually directly hit the school.   It was an F0 so it mainly broke windows and stuff.