My old home town--Huntsville, AL--is bringing back fallout shelters

...because of the terrorist threat. a big one they're re-opening will hold 20,000 people. i wonder how these people be selected? will they use the Dr. Strangelove model?

"Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. Ha, ha. But ah, with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present Gross National Product within say, twenty years"

Huntsville had it's own Dr. Strangelove during the Cold War, Dr. Wernher von Braun, ex-Nazi rocket scientist..

i grew up in Huntsville from the mid-60s until 1980. i remember doing nuclear attack drills in elementary school (where we crawled under our desks). i also remember a middle-school social studies teacher telling our class in no uncertain terms that Huntsville was the 14th target in the US of the Soviet nuclear arsenal...

it's a wonder i didn't turn out to be a paranoid freak.