Mike McCormick

Meeting Elanor Pigby in RL is on my bucket list.

"Recently released federal documents show that a train which derailed nearly a year ago while en route to the Navy's Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor was carrying explosive materials - as much as 51 tons of Trident missile motors loaded with propellant." - ST 04/07/87

and the base was decertified for nine weeks until they could demonstrate they knew how to properly handle nuclear weapons.

Largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the Western Hemisphere.

In the RL game of nuclear war, you don't want your city to have a dot on the map. Unfortunately the greater Seattle area has two dots on the map. Maybe time to dismantle our nuclear weapons.

In case you're curious about the size and scope of locating 1300 nukes 20 miles from Seattle (it's a lot closer than you think).

Don't forget the VW Thing.

Why does the State with the largest concentration of nuclear weapons in the Western Hemisphere not have a plan for nuclear accidents?

Not my idea of a "sharing" economy.

The view from Vancouver.

Illustration from the Kitsap Sun 03/12/04

"Kitsap County Sheriff Steve Boyer said yesterday that his office was not notified of any incident involving nuclear-tipped missiles last fall. Boyer was surprised yesterday when he heard of the incident from a reporter."

They had a nuclear missile accident in 2003. A work ladder punctured a 9" hole in a missile nose cone and stopped inches from the warheads. Local authorities were not informed about the incident and only found out the following year from a whistleblower leak.

Most people in Seattle don't realize that the base with the "largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the Western Hemisphere" is just 20 miles from Seattle.

Simulation of the size of explosion and radioactive fallout if a nuclear warhead were to detonate at Bangor. In 2003 there was a nuclear missile accident there, where a ladder punctured the nose cone of a missile stopping inches from the warheads.

Depending on wind direction, if a nuclear warhead detonated at the Bangor Base, the radioactive fallout could easily reach Seattle, Portland, and/or Vancouver, BC.

Most people don't realize that the Bangor Nuclear Sub Base (the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the Western Hemisphere) is 20 miles from Seattle.

Most people don't realize how close the Bangor Nuclear Sub Base is to Seattle (20 miles). It's comparable in size to Mercer Island.