xraytech
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Picked this interesting piece up this week at a downtown Pittsburgh antique shop.
These were handed out by a local Maytag shop
These were handed out by a local Maytag shop
Some handy advice from the local Maytag dealer
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We had a sign like these in our water heater closet in the house we lived in in 1962-63.
Eddie
Eddie
Funny
our local Maytag dealer is Ace Maytag....
our local Maytag dealer is Ace Maytag....
Oh, and don't forget to hide under your school desk!
"Close your eyes, wrap your hands around the back of your head and everything will be OK."
---Sister Mary Francis, my 1st grade teacher
Come to think of it, the nuns' house had a circa '56 Maytag in it.
"Close your eyes, wrap your hands around the back of your head and everything will be OK."
---Sister Mary Francis, my 1st grade teacher
Come to think of it, the nuns' house had a circa '56 Maytag in it.
I had somewhat of an A-Bomb craze in my school time.
Given the first decade or so of possibility of nuclear war that was actually pretty sound advise.
Sure tons of people would die and sure if you were too close you were SOL, but for most it was pretty good advice.
You could have been protected from the initial flash, flying debris (especially glass), falling debris and in case the builduing collapsed you would have a small hollowed out protected space.
Overall scale of war would have ment a general survivability on a larger time frame especially for supply chains a goverment entities.
It would have been an inimaginably huge disaster, but at least with a way past it.
As long as we keep the bombs in the lower kiloton range and the numbers of bombs in the dozens (and the main delivery method as planes).
Gives you enough time and low enough total yieled to recover.
As we moved into the thermonuclear age, from their into the ICBM age, the whole thing changed.
Yes, hiding under your desk would still help, just not anywhere close to as many people.
Weapon yields suddenly scaled by a factor of 10, numbers of weapons in a case of war as well, and time went down by 100 maybe.
When you were 2 miles from the bomb in a school before, you had a decent chance of getting out if that school alive.
Now make that more like 10 miles, or more.
One of the horrible things is that as you scale up detonation yield, heat gets exproportionaly more prevalent as a source of damage.
A broken bone is usually not deadly, shards of glass in your face are often not deadly wounds. They are immensly painfull and horrible without medication, but you would get through.
Try a 70% skin area third degree burn without treatment and you would be lucky to get along a few days.
A 5 megaton airburst would inflict 3rd degree burns up to 15 miles from ground zero tonany unprotected skin.
For comparison, at 150 kilotons (that is still several times hiroshima) that's not even 2 miles.
At some point, just standing in the street and hoping you are close enough is the best way to go IMO...
That is the horrible part: Once they got the key to fusion, they got the key to easily and cheaply scale up the explosion or to make the bomb tiny with basicly no work.
With close to no limits.
These machines are perfection, just with a completly horrid purpose.
Given the first decade or so of possibility of nuclear war that was actually pretty sound advise.
Sure tons of people would die and sure if you were too close you were SOL, but for most it was pretty good advice.
You could have been protected from the initial flash, flying debris (especially glass), falling debris and in case the builduing collapsed you would have a small hollowed out protected space.
Overall scale of war would have ment a general survivability on a larger time frame especially for supply chains a goverment entities.
It would have been an inimaginably huge disaster, but at least with a way past it.
As long as we keep the bombs in the lower kiloton range and the numbers of bombs in the dozens (and the main delivery method as planes).
Gives you enough time and low enough total yieled to recover.
As we moved into the thermonuclear age, from their into the ICBM age, the whole thing changed.
Yes, hiding under your desk would still help, just not anywhere close to as many people.
Weapon yields suddenly scaled by a factor of 10, numbers of weapons in a case of war as well, and time went down by 100 maybe.
When you were 2 miles from the bomb in a school before, you had a decent chance of getting out if that school alive.
Now make that more like 10 miles, or more.
One of the horrible things is that as you scale up detonation yield, heat gets exproportionaly more prevalent as a source of damage.
A broken bone is usually not deadly, shards of glass in your face are often not deadly wounds. They are immensly painfull and horrible without medication, but you would get through.
Try a 70% skin area third degree burn without treatment and you would be lucky to get along a few days.
A 5 megaton airburst would inflict 3rd degree burns up to 15 miles from ground zero tonany unprotected skin.
For comparison, at 150 kilotons (that is still several times hiroshima) that's not even 2 miles.
At some point, just standing in the street and hoping you are close enough is the best way to go IMO...
That is the horrible part: Once they got the key to fusion, they got the key to easily and cheaply scale up the explosion or to make the bomb tiny with basicly no work.
With close to no limits.
These machines are perfection, just with a completly horrid purpose.
firedome
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A-bomb..?
We have a circa 1961 Bomb shelter in the basement of our 1955 ranch... all set!
We have a circa 1961 Bomb shelter in the basement of our 1955 ranch... all set!
Shoot, if they launch a nuke toward us, I'm going to make a pitcher of lemonade, put on my sunglasses, and go outside to sit on the deck. I don't want to live through the aftermath!
There’s no way anyone is going to survive a nuclear attack, short of having a DEEP underground bunker, lined with concrete and lead. And then, even if you do survive, it will be YEARS before you would be able to once again go outside, breath fresh air and feel the sunshine on your face. I for one don’t want to survive in that kind of world. And quite probably, the one’s that do survive will be human beings that I wouldn’t want to have anything to do with anyway.
So, I’m with Greg and Dan, sit out in the backyard with a nice refreshing beverage and wait for the end of the world.
I already went thru the panic and distress of the Cold War as a child in the 50’s and 60’s, and it was frightening as hell for a little kid. And my parents foolishly or hopefully thought that keeping at least a half a tank of gas we could all just head for the hills when a nuclear attack was announced and wait it out.
And in the Catholic School I attended each student needed to bring bomb shelter supplies that were kept in cafeteria in the basement. We had regular, impromptu air raid drills, with the duck and cover. And after each of these bomb drills was over, Sister would tell the class that if there was an attack we may never see our parents again, but have to stay safely at school forever.
Believe me this used to scare the app cray out of all of us. I refuse to put any energy again into the misguided idea that I could survive nuclear holocaust. Enough is enough.
Eddie
So, I’m with Greg and Dan, sit out in the backyard with a nice refreshing beverage and wait for the end of the world.
I already went thru the panic and distress of the Cold War as a child in the 50’s and 60’s, and it was frightening as hell for a little kid. And my parents foolishly or hopefully thought that keeping at least a half a tank of gas we could all just head for the hills when a nuclear attack was announced and wait it out.
And in the Catholic School I attended each student needed to bring bomb shelter supplies that were kept in cafeteria in the basement. We had regular, impromptu air raid drills, with the duck and cover. And after each of these bomb drills was over, Sister would tell the class that if there was an attack we may never see our parents again, but have to stay safely at school forever.
Believe me this used to scare the app cray out of all of us. I refuse to put any energy again into the misguided idea that I could survive nuclear holocaust. Enough is enough.
Eddie
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