Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Duck and cover Date:   8/10/2017 11:02:48 AM

You raise a good point.  I grew up in Monmouth County where Ft. Monmouth and it's satellite, Camp Evans was located.  This was in the days when the government actually had labs and scientist and did their own R&D.  So I believe the idea at the time that those sites would be targeted.  Camp Evans was about 5 miles from my school and Ft. Monmouth was about 20 miles.  Back at that time, I'm not sure how accurate missiles would have been with no GPS.  I don't know, maybe they just wanted to do something, rather than nothing.  But in 1st grade is was scary.  I remember going home, locking the front door and told my mother "The Russians are coming".