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Caveats: article is from 2006, admits these matters are murky so not 100% confirmed or whatever. However:

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/where ... n-seattle/

In the article:
  • "Nearly one-quarter of America's 9,962 nuclear weapons are now assigned to the Bangor submarine base on Hood Canal, 20 air miles northwest of downtown Seattle. This makes Bangor the largest nuclear weapons storehouse in the United States, and possibly the world."
In case you're wondering why this makes a difference to me, this is where I live :P :( That means...

... I really do live in Mordor 8O

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Probably the safest place on the globe to live then Mig: when it comes to protecting the 'pretty things' in those bunkers no expense will be spared! :lol:
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!

"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)

....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
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Oh no that's the problem :P It would be overly easy for the government to fake a foreign nuclear attack from this area. Apparently there's even a lost nuke out in the waters or some damn thing. I crunched some of the numbers in the article, apparently the submarines carry the equivalent of over 15,000 Hiroshimas packed into their missiles... I always wondered why my dad said those submarines could destroy the world :P I thought it was just because he was a nuclear engineer.

EDIT: Also a different article elsewhere reported that it is illegal for Washington (the state, not D.C.) to specifically have an emergency response plan in the event of nuclear attack, or something along that line...

EDIT 2: And even if I'm safe here, the world isn't. This place is one of the ultimate threats to the world. Not institutionally speaking so much, of course, just in terms of raw physical power. But still, that's the horror, for me. Such an arsenal of evil overshadowing this little land I live in.
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We lie in the beds of other people's making on that score Mig. Still - if the worst happens we at least can take some consolation from the fact that when we go, we all go together!
In he meantime - party on!
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President of Peace? You fucking idiots!

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'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'

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:LOLS:

Yeah, no point in worrying about something which you have absolutely no ability to change.

That's an example of unproductive worry, which one should avoid at all costs.

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I guess I'm just taking it as a sign that, yeah, I really shouldn't live here, and everyone in the area who has said otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about...?
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If there's ever a nuclear explosion in Seattle, feel free to say "I told ya so!" ;)

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....... and few people can say that they live in Armageddon! Now that's a talking point if ever there was one! :lol:
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!

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It's not you guys, it's my ex-coworkers, and not all of them to be sure, but now anyway my cat is staying with a friend whose house is aligned with Seattle (it's in this offshoot of the town of Port Orchard, an area known as Manchester), like you look across the water and voila, there's the downtown Seattle skyline in profile on the horizon. So, IDK...

Another part of me wants to go as close as the Bangor base (where the submarines are or whatever) and protest, although what I would protest IDK.

Anyway, in related news, there are two massive ships, no clue what they are (I don't think they're aircraft carriers but I honestly don't know), now docked in the Bremerton yard, and yesterday I saw a sizable convoy of military fuel tankers driving through town, I've seen things like this before and it didn't mean a prelude to war (as far as I know) but on the other hand, it still was kinda intimidating.
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Glad your cat is safe Mig - and he/she is. Their complete indifference to all things nuclear means they never have to worry the way we do, and they have nine lives, remember. :) Seriously (just in case it was a possibility), going down there to protest is probably not a good idea. Governments are scratchy about that kind of stuff and react in a disproportionate way to it. This is one of those 'it is what it is' zones of life, where short of moving to NZ you aren't going to be able to determine its outcome. As such the adoption of a Buddha like acceptance of it is the way forward. Be lucky.
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And be Zen. ;)

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IDK, I didn't read the Covenant novels for nothing :P Then again I don't got no white-gold ring with me if I were to go storm the gates to the Clave ;)
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Or an army of Haruchai! :lol:
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!

"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)

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