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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 2971653" data-attributes="member: 2572">For  ICBMs I am talking about more than Atlanta and Denver. In adition to Denver, Colorado Springs should have been hit as well and at least two clouds fairly close to each other should have been seen. Colorado Springs is probably the more important target of the two with NORAD and Air Force Comand operating out of that area. Terrorists would hit Denver, enemy military would strike Colorado Springs. If it is ICBMs then I would also expect several other clouds to be seen hitting the US ICBM launch silos and possibly Witichita as well. I am currious about this point. If it was another major power why wern't there more ICBM strikes visible. If not a ICBM power then who? There is enough 24 hour news and government leaks to those news chanels that if there were major tensions with a major power then the power would be known. We as an audience should know if it is Russia/China/North Korea/Iran/etc. and that info should give an idea of how widespread the conflict likely is. If it is Russia/China then we are looking at Post-Apocolypic posibilities, if it is Iran/North Korea we are probably talking a few large cities in terrorist strikes.If it was thousands of nukes then see above. Colorado Springs is just as visible as Denver from that distance. Given the military importance of the area far more than one should have been seen. Western Kansas is fairly sparcely populated but there are county seats about every 40-60 miles apart so it wouldn't take to long to reach the other poulation centers (as small as they may be 2,000-5,000 people). Given the sparcity of towns in western Kansas it is not like everyone in Western Kansas wouldn't already know where everyone else is. This goes back to the question of who the enemy is. With only one cloud it wouldn't apear that a post-apocalyptic scenareo is going on. Wouldn't the instinct of the county government be to check in with its neighbors and see if there is word from the state level at one of them. Why is the entire town freaking out to the extent that they don't even trust thier neighboring towns to know they are alive? Is the town so xenophobic that even thier fellow Kansasins (or whatever the word is) can't know about them? Also what enemy is begining thier invasion in western Kansas? Seems like the last place an invading army would bother with.We should because the President was briefing Congeress on it and it was news. And the next town over in each direction that should still be there and that they have visited many times in the past. That better be answered soon because that should be the first concearn of the local government. Well the unspecified military emergency is one hole. A xenophobic fear of known neighbors is another. A lack of concearn over radiation, or the lack of fallout, is another. The fact that for the show to have long term potential it has to play up the Lost angle and trap them in a post-apocalyptic world or it just becomes small town drama as power and communications come back up in a matter of days/weeks/months if it is not. The fact that there is only one mushroom cloud visible to achieve this post-apocalyptc scenareo. My issue with this show is that I am burned out on shows that keep posing questions but don't give answers and the probability that this is one of those shows given the evidence so far. The reason I am participating in this thread though is that the topic of a what if scenareo we have been given is an interesting one though and I find this what if scenareo fun.</blockquote>

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