I knew it! Yes, there is a cover-up, only it is done by... whom?
quote:
“Jesus. They were that close to launching? Are they crazy? We're downwind…the fallout would have killed millions of people.”
Someone - some government representatives, probably - would have set something off that would have killed millions of people?
It's canon in the show that the US Government knows what's going on in Sunnydale, and that potentially apocalyptic events can happen there.
ShayneT isn't the only one to have assumed that there are contingency plans to use nukes if all else fails - I'm about 18 chapters into a Stargate crossover in which one of the USAF characters learns about one of the Los Angeles disaster plans, the one that assumes a detonation of "five or one hundred and fifty kilotons centred on the nearby city of Sunnydale, California." Then has to remind people that those are the two yields available from the warhead in an American cruise missile...
