>
> > At one point there were supposed to be fallout shelters under the
> > overpasses, and the roads can be turned into runways.
>
> And, or at least I was taught:, the roads were designed to handle tanks
> without serious damage.


I'm not sure how much of that is myth.  I read online today that having 1 in
5 miles straight to use as a runway is a myth, but they did NOT say that
using them as runways is a myth.

Especially on the east coast, older overpasses, I've seen steel doors into
the part that holds up the road overhead, so apparently there's some sort of
room under there.  Not so on modern overpasses, I think the shelter thing
went out of favour.

Some things you see in fiction are not so fictional either.
In the novel form of "andromeda strain", major manchek dials the binary of
222 to start the alert.
As a military kid, I had seen the signs that did say "in case of fire dial
division 222".
In the 70's I tried dialing 1-101-1110 from an on-base phone, and it was
answered by a female voice "Military Emergency"..  I decided to depart the
premises at that point :)    Same number tried from a civillian phone went
nowhere.




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