What if this was North Carolina 1961?

Two 24 megaton bombs almost destroyed North Carolina 3 days after JFK's inauguration. "Thank God for faulty H-bomb switches," Jane said. "Even Rooney's Billboard ad would not have survived that kind of a blast no matter how well her new perfume line, DOWNTOWN coulda and would have sold (in N.C. or in the NYC downtown area)," someone else said. The Pentagon cited this Air Force "accident" in Goldsboro to have been equivalent to 260 times the strength of the atom bomb that infamously destroyed Hiroshima. One wonders where Stanley Kubrick detonated any inspired humour regarding the actual facts in his movie parody spoof, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I stopped worrying and loved the bomb." "Unreal," Jane thought, while thinking of other things. "Our life is absolutely stranger than any Hollywood fictional pun." And Rooney's movies are far better than the bore that is slapstick true-life.