This is not an actual atomic blast...

[Inverter]

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Son says to father, "Dad, what was that?"

Father replies, "Oh nothing, don't worry about it. Let's eat our breakfast."

Wife says, "A nuclear bomb just exploded over the Walmart store! What should we do?"

Father replies, "We don't have to do anything. The shock wave is going to kill us in about three seconds."

 

[1sickbastard]

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Son says to father, "Dad, what was that?"

Father replies, "Oh nothing, don't worry about it. Let's eat our breakfast."

Wife says, "A nuclear bomb just exploded over the Walmart store! What should we do?"

Father replies, "We don't have to do anything. The shock wave is going to kill us in about three seconds."

Well THAT was the wrong answer!

The correct the answer was, of course, Duck and Cover.
C'mon, Bert, show us how to do it!

 

[Hard_Rom]

If subject to nuclear attack. Find shelter, put your head between your knees. And kiss your ass good bye.

There was a poster of this sort in the NBCD (Nuclear Biological Chemical defence) class in basic training.

That's where I found out why fatigues have plastic buttons and no zippers.

 

[Rachel_X]

If you're inside the blast radius, you'll be dust before you know anything has happened.

 

[Hypoxia]

But this was not an actual nuclear event, merely a vivid simulation.

Whew.

I grew up with crawl-under-desk drills. Like they would have done much good. We lived 5 miles from a major target, sandwiched in between other major targets. We weren't about to find ourselves in an ON THE BEACH slow-go. No backyard bomb shelter. No force fields. No chance.

And now USA could give launch codes to a guy who has threatened war with Mexico. Ay yi yi.

 

[oggbashan]

During the Cuban Missile crisis I found out what my role was as the newest officer in my department:

I had to sit on top of a tower in the middle of one of the UK's most likely targets to record and report where the nuclear explosions occurred.

Because they recognised that the first one was likely to be aimed at me, I was supposed to keep talking on the telephone to my superiors who would be in a bunker deep underground.

It taught me just how useful I was as a newbie.

 

[Rachel_X]

During the Cuban Missile crisis I found out what my role was as the newest officer in my department:

I had to sit on top of a tower in the middle of one of the UK's most likely targets to record and report where the nuclear explosions occurred.

Because they recognised that the first one was likely to be aimed at me, I was supposed to keep talking on the telephone to my superiors who would be in a bunker deep underground.

It taught me just how useful I was as a newbie.

I love that you had to tell them where the explosions were when they thought the first would hit you.
I mean, why can't you keep talking after being atomised? That's possible right?

 

[underguy1]

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Son says to father, "Dad, what was that?"

Father replies, "Oh nothing, don't worry about it. Let's eat our breakfast."

Wife says, "A nuclear bomb just exploded over the Walmart store! What should we do?"

Father replies, "We don't have to do anything. The shock wave is going to kill us in about three seconds."

When Clinton is elected you may well find out. The War Party seems intent on starting a hot war with Russia.

 

[Hard_Rom]

When Clinton is elected you may well find out. The War Party seems intent on starting a hot war with Russia.

Dream on! MAD has put a stop to that sort of thinking. The US, China, and Russia will just continue their wars via proxy in 3rd world countries like they have for the last 60 years.

 

[underguy1]

Dream on! MAD has put a stop to that sort of thinking. The US, China, and Russia will just continue their wars via proxy in 3rd world countries like they have for the last 60 years.

Keep drinking the western koolade, freak.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Keep drinking the western koolade, freak.

What a well thought out articulate response. Just the sort of thing I expected of you.

If you're all so sure we are heading towards nuclear war, I suggest you off yourself. It will be so much easier and less painful than dying of radiation sickness.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

During the Cuban Missile crisis I found out what my role was as the newest officer in my department:

I had to sit on top of a tower in the middle of one of the UK's most likely targets to record and report where the nuclear explosions occurred.

Because they recognised that the first one was likely to be aimed at me, I was supposed to keep talking on the telephone to my superiors who would be in a bunker deep underground.

It taught me just how useful I was as a newbie.

Gee, they couldn't establish an open circuit with a radio transmitter and wait for it to go offline? Guess those vacuum tubes cost more than what they were paying you.

 

[underguy1]

What a well thought out articulate response. Just the sort of thing I expected of you.

If you're all so sure we are heading towards nuclear war, I suggest you off yourself. It will be so much easier and less painful than dying of radiation sickness.

Well that's the sort of overly emotional, childish response I'd expect from a political economic naif.

There is no certainty involved but her belicosity and the imperialist mindset of the war party that she represents is extremely dangerous.

Your 'proxy war' stuff is bad history. It is mere apologism for Anglo-US interventionism.

Russia and China didn't spend the last 70 years overthrowing governments and waging wars for their ruling class' interests.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Well that's the sort of overly emotional, childish response I'd expect from a political economic naif.

There is no certainty involved but her belicosity and the imperialist mindset of the war party that she represents is extremely dangerous.

Your 'proxy war' stuff is bad history. It is mere apologism for Anglo-US interventionism.

Russia and China didn't spend the last 70 years overthrowing governments and waging wars for their ruling class' interests.

Oh no, Russia and China did for purely humanitarian reasons, LOL

What do you care. New Zealand will be the last place to suffer the effects of a nuclear war. Oh wait...

 

[underguy1]

Oh no, Russia and China did for purely humanitarian reasons, LOL

What do you care. New Zealand will be the last place to suffer the effects of a nuclear war. Oh wait...

Did what exactly?

And must one only be concerned about personal safety?

Are you capable of arguing or discussing issues like an adult?

 

[Hard_Rom]

Did what exactly?

And must one only be concerned about personal safety?

Are you capable of arguing or discussing issues like an adult?

You are a lying troll. Who does not even show respect enough for other site members to tell the truth about where you live. Either that or you are ashamed of it. Come back when you are willing to show who you really are. Until then get back under your bridge.

And "Keep drinking the western koolade, freak" is hardly arguing or discussing like an adult. So now you are an immature, lying, and disrespectful troll.

 

[underguy1]

You are a lying troll. Who does not even show respect enough for other site members to tell the truth about where you live. Either that or you are ashamed of it. Come back when you are willing to show who you really are. Until then get back under your bridge.

And "Keep drinking the western koolade, freak" is hardly arguing or discussing like an adult. So now you are an immature, lying, and disrespectful troll.

I don't understand what this meme is trying to achieve. Are you just trying to deflect because you're intellectually intimidated?

I live in New Zealand. That's all there is to it.

 

[Hard_Rom]

I don't understand what this meme is trying to achieve. Are you just trying to deflect because you're intellectually intimidated?

I live in New Zealand. That's all there is to it.

Pants on fire!

 

[oggbashan]

Gee, they couldn't establish an open circuit with a radio transmitter and wait for it to go offline? Guess those vacuum tubes cost more than what they were paying you.

In those days the vacuum tube probably did cost more than my pay for the rest of my very short life expectancy.

They wouldn't have had to pay it anyway. I was paid a month in arrear and once I was dead they'd probably claw it back as the cost of a government sponsored cremation. They wouldn't care that the USSR government had arranged my cremation.

 

[Hypoxia]

In those days the vacuum tube probably did cost more than my pay for the rest of my very short life expectancy.

That's because they didn't buy them from Radio Shack.

They wouldn't have had to pay it anyway. I was paid a month in arrear and once I was dead they'd probably claw it back as the cost of a government sponsored cremation. They wouldn't care that the USSR government had arranged my cremation.

We will all go together when we go
All suffused with an incandescent glow
No one will have the endurance
To collect on his insurance
Lloyd's of London will be loaded when they go

Oh, we will all burn together when we burn
There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn
When it's time for the fallout
And Saint Peter calls us all out
We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn

--T.Lehrer

 

[Inverter]

In those days the vacuum tube probably did cost more than my pay for the rest of my very short life expectancy.

They wouldn't have had to pay it anyway. I was paid a month in arrear and once I was dead they'd probably claw it back as the cost of a government sponsored cremation. They wouldn't care that the USSR government had arranged my cremation.

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[underguy1]

Pants on fire!

What possible cause do you have to assert this nonsense?

It's truly bizarre.

 

[Tigersman]

Bac in the early 60s, I read the book "On the Beach" about the aftermath of nuclear war. The only country where people were still alive was Australia and those people were getting sick from radiation poisoning from fallout. Two movies have been made based on this book. It's sad thinking that beings from another world would find only ruins and skeletons on our planet.

 

[sr71plt]

But this was not an actual nuclear event, merely a vivid simulation.

Whew.

I grew up with crawl-under-desk drills. Like they would have done much good. We lived 5 miles from a major target, sandwiched in between other major targets. We weren't about to find ourselves in an ON THE BEACH slow-go. No backyard bomb shelter. No force fields. No chance.

And now USA could give launch codes to a guy who has threatened war with Mexico. Ay yi yi.

I remember when my mother got depressed over the nuclear thing and, while my dad was abroad on one of his "can't tell you" trips, bought land in Colorado for us all to retreat to--far from the madding crowd, so she thought. When he got home, my dad said that, yes, Cheyenne Mountain would be lovely place to live but did she realize that NORAD, the #1 nuclear target in the United States at the time, was under it?

I've always said that if a nuclear missile was incoming, I'd want it to hit me in the head, not anywhere off to the side. This view was solidified when I had to spend time, on loan to NPIC, giving daily updates (from satellite photography collection) of what was happening in the Chernobyl reactor meltdown.

 

[1sickbastard]

We'll Meet Again "Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Quit Worrying and Love the Bomb"