And what made Tampa
THE strategic target among all the much higher strategic military targets, HUH? And how the Devil were those Soviet Backfire Bombers going to make it all the way from the USSR to Florida with
NO refueling capabilities after entering the Western Hemisphere on their bloody way from Eastern USSR to freaking Florida.
And when the Soviets started putting together reliable ICBM's that could get a payload within a mile or 2 of the target back in1958 to 1960 ( see
Missile gap - Wikipedia and the source referenced ),
there was no need for those safety drills because the Soviet machines of Hell flight times were in minutes, not bloody hours, and Strategic Air Command sure as Hell wouldn't update the target and progress to all where those re: the incoming ICBM's Further, there was
no need for those futile drills, especially after the Soviets developed their own thermo-nuke in November 1955 because the kids under their melting desks would be killed anyway, hydrogen bombs being nasty that way melting rocks and kiddies indiscriminately!!
But you...well an alternative reality of a bucket of manure would pass for your recall of that period!