Red Alert Message for Los Angeles Civil Defense (1950s)

[musicfan101ful]

can someone explain to me what was suppost to happen? i'm only 17 and a Canadian so i don't know what this is

[Petemonster62]

SimpsonFan has a point since our newly-deployed Nike anti-aircraft missiles made a high-altitude Soviet bomber quite vulnerable.

[Petemonster62]

I forgot Leandar that a possible attack scenario we considered at the time was that the Soviets would use their submarines to surface just off the coast & lanch an A-bomb equipped cruise missile at coastal cities. After the Korean War, the U.S. Navy had some of its aircraft carriers tracking Soviet subs with W.W. 2 Corsair prop fighters that had submarine detection radar pods on the bottom of their fuselages.

[leandar]

@Petemonster62 All interesting info. Glad we never really had to worry about it and I pray we never do still.

[Petemonster62]

How do they determine how much time you have? You would think it would be more than a few minutes in the early 1950s since the A-bomb was being delivered by a Soviet prop bomber.

[leandar]

@Petemonster62 I imagine it would have depended on how soon the bomber was detected incoming on radars, figuring out it's course and most probable target. Although I've often thought, at the same time as everyone was ducking, wouldn't nearby airbases surely be scrambling jets and fighters to intercept and shoot down the bomber before it's mission could be carried out? You never heard of that, but one would think that was a standard procedure too.

[simpsonfan13]

@leandar if the bomber came in low enough they would be un-detectable until they were very close in. they would still need time to pull up to altitude but there would be a great deal less time to intercept.

[TexasTimeWaste]

Quite the Upper Midwest accent there! 

[ntnoob]

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