<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 11:10 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg3338612195018435537"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_3338612195018435537WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From</span></b><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">></span></b><span class="m_3338612195018435537gmaildefault" style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">> </span></b></span><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">…Once a launch of an ICBM<span class="m_3338612195018435537m-9066483262687427523gmaildefault">… President of the United States will almost certainly be dead in 20 minutes….</span></span></b></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_3338612195018435537gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">> </span></i></span><span class="m_3338612195018435537m-9066483262687427523gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">On the contrary John.  The military thought of that. </span></i></span><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">>…And yet you are unable to specify what exactly the military thought of.<span class="m_3338612195018435537gmaildefault"> </span> </span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_3338612195018435537gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_3338612195018435537gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_3338612195018435537gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_3338612195018435537gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Tunnels John.  Deep, far from harm in a nuclear attack or unruly mobs.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span></b></span><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Sheesh was it really necessary to spell it out? </span></b></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Yes I think it was. You can't get very <span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span>far<span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span> in 20 minutes.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> And you need a very substantial bunker to survive a thermonuclear explosion, and in an era of spy satellites that can read the license plates on cars from orbit  the enemy would certainly know about a construction project of such a large magnitude. The president would probably be safe, at least for a few hours, if he could get to Air Force One, but the enemy would certainly know where that was parked and it would get nuked while it was still on the ground.  </span></font></b></div><div><b><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></b></div><div><b><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></font></b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg3338612195018435537"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_3338612195018435537WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote 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