In the beginning of Wargames, they have a drill for a missile launch which includes opening the exterior doors required for 10 missiles.

Would people living in the local area have been able to hear this and understand what the noise was?

I’m guessing the missile bases were isolated but how much so?

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My impression is that US missile silos are located mostly in sparsely populated areas of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, where there are not a lot of locals to overhear the garage door opening.