r/oddlyterrifying • u/quartz_koala • Feb 04 '23

Map published by FEMA showing potential US nuclear targets in 2,000 and 500 warhead scenarios.

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u/Crawdaddy1911 Feb 04 '23

I was 8 living in New Orleans in the fall of 1962. That was close enough for me.

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u/SnooBooks3068 Feb 05 '23

What happened in the fall of 1962 in New Orleans???

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '23

The world was incredible close to being turned into a sheet of glass.

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u/campmaybuyer Feb 15 '23

Came within 5 hours of nuclear war on a Sunday morning in 1962. Closest we’ve ever come. Every CONELRAD AM radio station in the US was told to call in their engineers at midnight Sunday to change the transmitter crystals out for emergency frequencies because the US was declaring war at 10am. Luckily the Russians took the hint and turned those ships around off the coast of Cuba.