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Ever wondered where the US nukes are stored? Go on a Google Nuclear Trip!
fas.org — The Federation of American Scientists has created a virtual satellite image tour of the 18 nuclear weapons storage facilities in the US and Europe. An interactive map based on Google Earth satellite image technology tracks nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads in the US arsenal--15 years after the end of the Cold War. (For more details, read the article.)
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- newspigeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3More details adapted from the article:
Going on a Google Journey to the US Nuclear Silos:
Based on the information in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists article, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) have created a virtual satellite image tour of the 18 nuclear weapons storage facilities in the United States and Europe.
To take the tour, you need to have GoogleEarth installed on your computer.
GoogleEarth is available for free http://earth.google.com/ .
Once you're set up, visit http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/images/NotebookGoogle.kmz to begin.
When GoogleEarth has finished loading, check the "Where the Bombs are, 2006" box in the "Places" window to the left to activate the placemarks; click once on a placemark to get an overview of the nuclear weapons stored at the base; and click twice to zoom in on the facility. - polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I never realized we had 8,979 nukes!!
- newspigeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And that's still down from a much larger number near the end of the cold war.
The figures reduced significantly in the 1990s.
Imagine what it takes to maintain these nukes.
How many people can you feed or cure with that money?
I never understood why anyone would feel a need for enough nukes to destroy humankind several times over.
- newspigeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And that's still down from a much larger number near the end of the cold war.
- uselessexpert, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1And just imagine, that's what Google Earth can see. I just wonder how close the US spy satellites can get....
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