OOC: This is a reboot of something I tried to start a while back. Made the mistake that time of trying to outline where I wanted to go as I wrote. This time I have the outline before I get started, so daily or so updates shouldn't be a problem. Hang on for the ride! :)
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He would have had to have developed the weapon without ANYONE knowing about it, which is almost ASB, because the Israelis certainly would have bombed them to Hell the moment they found out the Iraqis were developing a weapon.
I was living in Hempstead, New York (Long Island) at the time.
I suspect we probably would have survived the New York attacks, being as far out as we were, but fallout and such, depending on wind direction, could have made life quite unfun. Then again, a secondary strike on the Grumman plant...
Ummm, much more likely it gets blown to bits by multiple warheads off an SLBM, methinks...in any case there isn't a city there. The port makes it a PRIMARY target.
Thanks. I remembered that scene, with the kids coming upon Tom Osborne serenly sitting there in the basement of Memorial Stadium as the sirens were going off...and then I forgot Memorial Stadium isn't in Oklahoma City--me duh! :)
Someone asked about Oklahoma City earlier--I believe they took a near-miss with a bit of damage--I remember a scene in one of the P&S threads (Chipperback maybe)? about Memorial Stadium still standing after the attack.