re: #262 calochortus
The Air Force base in my home town had missile silos*, and everyone knew it. We never did any kind of practice for nuclear war, just tornadoes. I remember being in tennis class one day and us students talking about what we would do if a nuclear war occurred.
*I saw a story last year about those silos. Water has leaked into the empty silos, and people now pay to go scuba diving in them.