Posted on 04/29/2006 5:02:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
Clicky Here to Watch How To Survive an Atom Bomb
What a startling "Adult " film.
I have a collection of Civil Defense pamphlets from the 50s and 60s and they have the same adult to adult, informational writing style.
The same pamphlets from the 80s talk down to the reader, and don't really give any usable information, it is mostly "try not to panic and wait for the govt." repeated in different ways.
That old black and white film at your link is a reminder of when we were a nation of grownups and men, and it has a lot of useful information.
Why so expensive? How about a Cessna 180 or smaller?
you can be certain that they will fight.
They will fight you and anyone else that gets in the way of them having what they want and need, following a catastrophy such as this.
Our internal enemies will will be our biggest problem, post nuke attack.
You woud think that this administrations response to Iran at a minimum is to put anybody who prays to Allah on notice that they will be targeted in retaliation for any nuclear strike.
Instead we are being told that Saudi Arabia and Dubai are our allies.
Muslims are treacherous insane maniacs who will use nukes the moment they are able to precisely because they believe that we will not know who to retaliate against.
With this bunch in the White House and anybody else on the horizon that may take its polace the ragheads are probably right in their assumption.
Don't think China and Russia won't threaten to strike us back if we retaliate against the mideast either.
All because our leadership is clueless.
Who would seal the borders after an attack? The powers that be, which would be the powers that are, would argue that they need more people to take are of the people sick with radiation exposure that the Americanos do not want to care for.
"I had a dream last night that a cat-4 hurricane was hitting Houston and as the eye crossed the city, terrorists decided to explode a dirty bomb in the eye and the hurricane dragged the radiation all across the eastern US. (I don't know what the life or lethality is of a dirty bomb so, another silly dream/idea?) I'm not prepared for a dirty bomb!"
23 posted on 04/29/2006 7:35:59 PM CDT by blam
They would fight each other for the local spoils - there would be no enemy further away from that, and no planning further than today, and no supplies to ration except for this afternoon.
No one wins in a nuclear war.
Does any would-be enemy foolish enough to attack us really think that they could escape the wrath of our boomers (nuclear subs)?
If we are attacked the attacking country will be utterly destroyed.
You are 100% correct, the problem is that the Islamofascists WANT to die.
Well, then, let us oblige them with a good old-fashioned pre-emptive strike.
Better them than us.
He makes a good point, but he sounds awfully self-important.
It's kinda offputting. :P
Good point.
Just further proving the futility of it all.
The only real chance at success is bringing it to them where they are first.
Wasn't it Hiram Maxim who thought that the machine gun would end war because using it would be too terrible to contemplate?
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Destruction of masonry structures can be expected about 2 miles out from a 100kT ground burst.
Manhattan island is 13.4 miles long and about 2 miles wide, river to river.
Assuming that a container was detonated on the Brooklyn waterfront or at Port Elizabeth, there actually would be quite a bit of Manhattan left.
If a 100 kT device were trucked INTO Manhattan, the destruction would be greater, but it is still a gross exaggeration to refer to "the very little of what remains of Manhattan".
And we all know that anything in a book must by lying propaganda.
Only stuff on the internet is true.
wag - thanks for posting this. When I was a kid I read "Hiroshima" by John Hersey. Everyone should read that book.
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