Fallout/bomb shelter
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ParadiseRoad
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THE PILGRIM
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One day I was touring the Titan Missile Site over in AZ.
A discussion arose about a safe place to be in case somebody nuked the nearby Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
I said , we are already in the safest place around.
Close the outside blast doors, this is it!
Titan Missile Museum - Wikipedia
A discussion arose about a safe place to be in case somebody nuked the nearby Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
I said , we are already in the safest place around.
Close the outside blast doors, this is it!
Titan Missile Museum - Wikipedia
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oneounceload
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Anyone have reservations at the Greenbriar?
Ike and Maimie just loved it!Great golf for the Washington VIP's
Now a door like that is needed on your home safe to keep your guns safe - at least according to all of the internet experts on home invasions..........
The big fear now is ZOMBIES !
Store lots of water, food and AMMO.
Store lots of water, food and AMMO.
ExcitableBoy
US Veteran
Got plenty of zombies roaming the land already. They tend to congregate in big bunches where there's lots of blacktop and concrete, office buildings, wine bars and Starbucks. They've become quite mobile, and wear cute outfits while pedaling bicycles and trying to commit "suicide-by-car".
I'll pick Door Number 2 and go with the 50/50 chance. The possibilities of a "nuclear tan" bothers me a bit, but if there are any shelters left, and stocked with old "survival rations", I think I'd fear THEM more than latent radiation. The reason: While stationed on Guam, back in the Pleistocene Era, my comm-shack watch section was stranded while on-duty for three days due to being hit by a typhoon. The chow truck couldn't make it to the comm site, so all the gee-dunk in the shack was soon gone. We had no choice but to break into a stash of WWII emergency supplies, contained within big tins. I remember foremost the abominable, stale crackers and 5-packs of Lucky Strikes. The smokes were so old that the paper was spotted brown, and they were so dry that they burned like a California brush fire, and just as hot. Good times!
Nuclear war is obviously the last thing any of us want, but I've never been able to understand the "If we get hit, I'm just going to play in the fireball and get it over with quick," kind of attitude. If you've lost any kind of survival instinct, I would classify that type of person as excess baggage, anyway, and pay your fare to watch the fireworks up close.
The rest of us 'roaches will take it from there. More oxygen for the rest of us, thank you.
I'll pick Door Number 2 and go with the 50/50 chance. The possibilities of a "nuclear tan" bothers me a bit, but if there are any shelters left, and stocked with old "survival rations", I think I'd fear THEM more than latent radiation. The reason: While stationed on Guam, back in the Pleistocene Era, my comm-shack watch section was stranded while on-duty for three days due to being hit by a typhoon. The chow truck couldn't make it to the comm site, so all the gee-dunk in the shack was soon gone. We had no choice but to break into a stash of WWII emergency supplies, contained within big tins. I remember foremost the abominable, stale crackers and 5-packs of Lucky Strikes. The smokes were so old that the paper was spotted brown, and they were so dry that they burned like a California brush fire, and just as hot. Good times!
Nuclear war is obviously the last thing any of us want, but I've never been able to understand the "If we get hit, I'm just going to play in the fireball and get it over with quick," kind of attitude. If you've lost any kind of survival instinct, I would classify that type of person as excess baggage, anyway, and pay your fare to watch the fireworks up close.
The rest of us 'roaches will take it from there. More oxygen for the rest of us, thank you.
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Ivan the Butcher
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I did a quick check for bomb shelters where i live (some 1600 people)
and the closest one is 30 kilometers away, it holds 78 people.
Guess i won't make it if the "you know what" hit the fan
I didn't know North Korea wanted to nuke Sweden.
Ivan
I grew up in the Cold War and remember the duck & cover drills in school. They used to take us into the basement and we would duck under the steam pipes. My friends and I still laugh about that.
Steam cooked kids!
Steam cooked kids!
I didn't know North Korea wanted to nuke Sweden.
Ivan
In the -70s they orderd a bunch of Volvo cars but never payed them,
so they owe us plenty. But seriously.. the fallout from a nuke war would
spread around the world so i guess we all need some shelters.
Protocall_Design
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Sounds like the perfect solution to Global Warming! All the dust in the air would block out a lot of the sun, for a while anyway.
We were taught it--I'm of that generation. We got taught all about how the Cold War was just irrational American hubris, a waste of resources, holding the rest of the world hostage, etc etc. And how our sacrifices in WWII pale in comparison to those of the Russian people, who burned their own cities (and shot their own men!) to defeat the Germans.
Yes. That's taught now. The Soviets were great because their political elite was courageous enough to sacrifice millions of peasants.
Nobody ever told us about how we're the greatest country on Earth because we were the sole nuclear power for about 10 years and didn't use it. Or about how we alone preserved freedom and Western civilization, and guarded the liberty and sovereignty of Europe while they rebuilt. Or about how we defeated the most powerful military alliance known to man, and then--this is crazy--rebuilt their countries and industries after we finished wrecking them.
bigwheelzip
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Did your country develop any new response to radiation, arising from the huge dose Scandinavia got from Chernobyl?
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I just happened to glance at the San Antonio newspaper and this article and pictures gives a good review of Atom Bomb detonation radius.
Names & Faces: Joe Pavelski, Megan Rapinoe - San Antonio Express-News
Names & Faces: Joe Pavelski, Megan Rapinoe - San Antonio Express-News
carpriver
US Veteran
one of the last extra duty jobs I was assigned was in Disaster Preparedness. In the event of a nuclear war we were to be the people that would operate the shelters and monitor the levels of radiation outside the shelters and keep track of the exposure of the troops that would be doing repairs and recovery. I have forgotten all the doses and exposure times for each type of ration you could be exposed too. the standard response to a nuclear attack was "get in the truck and drive toward the flash." survival was not something many people expected to do. What we were talking about was and all out war with multiple bombs or warheads. a limited, one or two war heads would kill a lot of people in the blast area, say out to 5-10 miles and radiation in the ground would be an on going problems for several hundred years. Air born fall out will be carried by the winds an can/will settle on every thing for hundred /thousand of miles.
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