Posted on 07/17/2007 7:28:31 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday
When I was in grammar school we had air raid drills. Duck and cover was just being introduced when I graduated high school. It was clear from the B-52s circling overhead ready to break out north that there was serious trouble, but at the time nobody but experts had a clear idea what nukes could do aside from some descriptions of Hiroshima. Our little town of 10,000 was supposed to put up the million evacuees from the nearby city in our spare bedrooms. Really, nobody had a clue.
Some things are missing from the picture on the left. Sadly the picture on the right is intact. This should be an indicator of future response..... Can’t hurt anyones feelings now.
That depends on just where you are when the bomb goes off. If you are inside the 12 psi zone or inside the fireball, sure, you are a goner no matter what you do.
But if you are far enough away, duck n cover will protect you from flying glass and other flying stuff. A 10 meg nuke will break your windows from at least ten miles away, but there will be several seconds between the flash and the bang. if you see the flash and run to the window, you get shredded by glass shrapnel. If you see the flash and cover up, you will at least survive that effect.
There are weapons evvects calculators on line. For most of them, if you are in the yellow zone or “moderate damage zone” ducking can save you. The USA stopped teaching nuke survival in 1963- 64.
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Library/Nukesims.html
www.archive.org has the original Duck and Cover movies with Burt the Turtle.
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Chertoff, Condi, Bush seem to have adopted the “take a hit first” plans of the left
I think it’s time to tell the UN and the rest of the world to just shut up get under desks
And make an island or two or three disappear forever as a demo
[And make an island or two or three disappear forever as a demo]
That would probably be a pretty good idea right now, but the libs would yell and scream.
The terrorists need some major threat but they are so scattered that it’s hard to do.
Precisely. But the clientelle enjoys freakin' out so much.
I believe that in addition to the 7 named cities, two more could be added to create a complete picture of the destruction - Mecca and Medina. Those two would disappear from the map, possibly Tehran and Damascus also.
That my friends should be the result after the next homicide event no matter how small or how isolated. It should be clear in the minds of every muslim that our resolve is to end their insanity in the only way possible, with vivid examples beginning in Mecca, and remaining comments self censored.
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It’s not the logistics or technology -
It’s the will to do it by leaders who have not learned since Pearl Harbor or 911 -
It’s a Senate full of pansies and traitors -
“I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed up, but 10-20 million tops, depending on the breaks.”
Gen. Buck Turgidson, the George C. Scott character in Dr. Strangelove
I know. Your mind never takes a break.
Nuke mecca during hajj.
In retaliation, I’d say nuke Medina, Mecca, Jeddah, Riyadh, Tehran, Baghdad, Amman, Dubai, Mogadishu, and throw in Pyongyang, Beijing, Havana, and Moscow for good measure.
If we got nuked we would probably respond with a peace vigil, considering the leaders we currently have.
I agree.
Someday, this will become the climax in the war with Islam.
The defining moment through which the West declares that it intends to win....
- John
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