[mkjessup]

We had a bomb shelter in the basement of the home I grew up in, reinforced beams and supports into which bricks and sand were loaded (for protection from radiation) and we kept it stocked, rotated water, food and first aid supplies, and my Dad's view was 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst' and I have embraced that philosophy.

One of the most brazen lies of the liberal crowd is to cite the classroom practice of 'hiding under the desk' (i.e. 'duck and cover') as being a futile gesture, they say "a cheap student desk won't protect you from an atomic bomb!" but what they either don't comprehend (or deliberately avoid as fact) is that the practice of diving under our desks was NOT based on the hope that it might save us from an actual nuclear detonation, it was the practical view that by hiding under our desks, we might avoid the shards of flying glass and debris that would inevitably come when the blast wave struck the school building. Nobody was deluding themselves that a student desk offered any direct blast protection.

One website you might find interesting is Conelrad.Com:

http://www.conelrad.com

It is a little tongue-in-cheek but has a fair amount of historical material.

If you know what the AM radio frequencies 640 and 1240 kilocycles were intended for, you're already off to a good start. ;)

[Nikas777]

One of the most brazen lies of the liberal crowd is to cite the classroom practice of 'hiding under the desk' (i.e. 'duck and cover') as being a futile gesture, they say "a cheap student desk won't protect you from an atomic bomb!" but what they either don't comprehend (or deliberately avoid as fact) is that the practice of diving under our desks was NOT based on the hope that it might save us from an actual nuclear detonation, it was the practical view that by hiding under our desks, we might avoid the shards of flying glass and debris that would inevitably come when the blast wave struck the school building. Nobody was deluding themselves that a student desk offered any direct blast protection.

I said the same thing up at post # 21

I wrote:

Nowadays everyone talks of a nuclear exchange as envisioned during the Cold War as wiping all life away in an instant. The reality is that those drills could have saved lots of lives just a few miles from a blast site.

Sometimes I wondered if the Left just did or said stuff like that to leave us defenseless? Switzerland still by law active bomb shelters as part of building requirements.