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Tips like “don’t use conditioner” and “it may be safe to come out of a shelter in 2 weeks”.
Brings to mind a saying from back in the old Cold War nuclear attack paranoia: “Bend over and kiss your happy ass goodbye!”
The big problem with nuclear weapons is not the arsenals of the US or Russia. It’s the small arsenals of idiots, like Iran. The Americans and Russians looked at what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and did the math about the effects of H-bombs versus those A-bombs. The conclusion was that nuclear war would be very much like throwing hand grenades at each other while locked in the same closet. Fanatic-based governments are not as likely to consider the consequences.
I worked with a guy that was a POW in Japan for most of the war. He travelled through Nagasaki on his way to being released. The POWs had heard about the fire bombing of Dresden and assumed that was what happened. The Japanese government had still not admitted to their people what had happened. The guy told me that it was just blackened ash in every direction. I later met one of the pilots that dropped that bomb. They barely escaped the fireball. While talking to the pilot (at a gun show), there was a steady stream of ex-GIs that came by to thank him. “I was on Iwo Jima, and I was completely sure that if we had to invade Japan, I would never survive. Thank you for ending the war.”
February 2nd, 2019 at 23:40
Tips like “don’t use conditioner” and “it may be safe to come out of a shelter in 2 weeks”.
Brings to mind a saying from back in the old Cold War nuclear attack paranoia: “Bend over and kiss your happy ass goodbye!”
The big problem with nuclear weapons is not the arsenals of the US or Russia. It’s the small arsenals of idiots, like Iran. The Americans and Russians looked at what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and did the math about the effects of H-bombs versus those A-bombs. The conclusion was that nuclear war would be very much like throwing hand grenades at each other while locked in the same closet. Fanatic-based governments are not as likely to consider the consequences.
I worked with a guy that was a POW in Japan for most of the war. He travelled through Nagasaki on his way to being released. The POWs had heard about the fire bombing of Dresden and assumed that was what happened. The Japanese government had still not admitted to their people what had happened. The guy told me that it was just blackened ash in every direction. I later met one of the pilots that dropped that bomb. They barely escaped the fireball. While talking to the pilot (at a gun show), there was a steady stream of ex-GIs that came by to thank him. “I was on Iwo Jima, and I was completely sure that if we had to invade Japan, I would never survive. Thank you for ending the war.”