Please pass this along to young people and anyone you know who is ignorant of or complacent about the threat of nuclear war.
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An allied correspondent stands in a sea of rubble before the shell of a building that once was a movie theatre in Hiroshima on September 8, 45. Link here.Ruins of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. From World Atlas.Piles of victims of the atomic blast in Hiroshima, Japan, 1945. UK ExpressFrom World AtlasA nuclear bomb victim lies in quarantine on the island of Ninoshima in Hiroshima, Japan, 9,000-meters from the epicentre on August 7, 1945, one day after the bombing by the United States. Picture: Yotsugi Kawahara. Link here.
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Thank you, Natylie. We need this reminder!
Because it’s only us seniors who are old enough to remember, and nobody listens to us.
You remember, Deena, when we were kids and they used to test the air raid sirens regularly? Remember when they held those civil defense drills at school? The joke was, “bend over, put your head between your knees, and kiss your ass goodbye”
GOOD post, Natylie!
I hear *far* too much loose talk about the use of nuclear weapons, obviously coming from people who have no f****** idea what they are talking about.
yes, reaching out is absolutely necessary. Many just don´t know. (And many do but prefer to ignore it.)
I always tell people: Imagine your are in the streets of Hiroshima shopping.
Then the bomb explodes a couple of Hundred meters above you.
A blast expands across the city.
A heat wave with the speed of 1000 km/h producing 6000 Celsius burning you instantly.
A city area of 10 squaremiles is evaporated in 10 seconds.
Imagine being hit by a 1 t truck driving 700 mp/h and then feeling 6000 degrees on your skin.
And thats just 70 years old tech.
Hydrogen bomb is even worse. It is beyond human imagination.
Former Los Alamos scientists woke up in the middle of the night for the rest of their lives sweating ouf of fear and panic haunted by what they had brought into the world.
The desaster is indescribable.
When this was new (early 1950s) politicians in Europe were shocked. They did lobby for nuclear arms openly.
But behind closed doors they were devastated about what these bombs did and what NATO nuclear stretagy would expect the governments and populations do and endure.
“We think the price is worth it” if it means the neo-cons can access the wealth of Russia and dominate what remains of the world
Let us include the poor pacific islanders who had to suffer fallout and loss of their homes due to USA using them and their islands as Guinea Pigs. The USA military has been very successful in suppressing the photos and reports, but some information is out there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo
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Thank you, Natylie. We need this reminder!
Because it’s only us seniors who are old enough to remember, and nobody listens to us.
You remember, Deena, when we were kids and they used to test the air raid sirens regularly? Remember when they held those civil defense drills at school? The joke was, “bend over, put your head between your knees, and kiss your ass goodbye”
GOOD post, Natylie!
I hear *far* too much loose talk about the use of nuclear weapons, obviously coming from people who have no f****** idea what they are talking about.
yes, reaching out is absolutely necessary. Many just don´t know. (And many do but prefer to ignore it.)
I always tell people: Imagine your are in the streets of Hiroshima shopping.
Then the bomb explodes a couple of Hundred meters above you.
A blast expands across the city.
A heat wave with the speed of 1000 km/h producing 6000 Celsius burning you instantly.
A city area of 10 squaremiles is evaporated in 10 seconds.
Imagine being hit by a 1 t truck driving 700 mp/h and then feeling 6000 degrees on your skin.
And thats just 70 years old tech.
Hydrogen bomb is even worse. It is beyond human imagination.
Former Los Alamos scientists woke up in the middle of the night for the rest of their lives sweating ouf of fear and panic haunted by what they had brought into the world.
The desaster is indescribable.
When this was new (early 1950s) politicians in Europe were shocked. They did lobby for nuclear arms openly.
But behind closed doors they were devastated about what these bombs did and what NATO nuclear stretagy would expect the governments and populations do and endure.
Pure madness.
Anatol Lieven with a very serious interview on Jacobin 2 days ago about what we are getting into:
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/ukraine-russia-us-nuclear-war-putin
“We think the price is worth it” if it means the neo-cons can access the wealth of Russia and dominate what remains of the world
Let us include the poor pacific islanders who had to suffer fallout and loss of their homes due to USA using them and their islands as Guinea Pigs. The USA military has been very successful in suppressing the photos and reports, but some information is out there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo