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The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget
#11
RE: The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget
Former cold warrior here, I served as my unit's Nuclear/Biological/Chemical warfare noncommissioned officer. TBF, the latter two scared the fuck out out of me a lot more than the former. Generally invisible, and a whole lot more likely to be employed on the battlefield.
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#12
RE: The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget
The recent TV series Chernobyl had some dreadfully realistic scenes of the hellish, drawn out, agonising death which is death by radiation exposure...hard to envisage a worse way to go.
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RE: The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget
(January 11, 2020 at 12:32 am)Jackalope Wrote: Former cold warrior here, I served as my unit's Nuclear/Biological/Chemical warfare noncommissioned officer.  TBF, the latter two scared the fuck out out of me a lot more than the former.  Generally invisible, and a whole lot more likely to be employed on the battlefield.

I remember hearing horrible things in my high school days about what agent orange did to the human body.  Scary stuff indeed.
  
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#14
RE: The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget
You're all way off.  Forget the paper bags and the school desks.  Clearly, the BEST way to survive being at Ground Zero for a nuclear blast is to hide in a fridge.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget
(January 10, 2020 at 11:41 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: And apparently, in the interim between the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one cop from Hiroshima went to Nagasaki to explain that the police there to duck when the bomb went off. When the bomb dropped there, not a single Nagasaki cop died in the initial blast.

So he knew Nagasaki would be the next target? Huh
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#16
RE: The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget
(January 11, 2020 at 7:27 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(January 10, 2020 at 11:41 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: And apparently, in the interim between the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one cop from Hiroshima went to Nagasaki to explain that the police there to duck when the bomb went off. When the bomb dropped there, not a single Nagasaki cop died in the initial blast.

So he knew Nagasaki would be the next target?  Huh

Yeah, I'm calling urban myth on that one.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget
(January 11, 2020 at 8:06 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 11, 2020 at 7:27 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: So he knew Nagasaki would be the next target?  Huh

Yeah, I'm calling urban myth on that one.

Boru

He would have to have left a city that seriously needed people to regain control of the place and aid in disaster relief and go to a random city via carefully controlled transit facilities without, apparently, any orders to do so. He would have valuable information about how to avoid the flash effects of an atomic bomb based on his vast experience in the matter.
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#18
RE: The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget
Not to mention he would have been the most valuable intelligence resource in the Japanese Empire.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget
(January 11, 2020 at 8:28 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Not to mention he would have been the most valuable intelligence resource in the Japanese Empire.

Boru

They certainly wouldn't have lined up 8,000 troopers underneath that big red X.
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RE: The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget
(January 11, 2020 at 7:27 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(January 10, 2020 at 11:41 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: And apparently, in the interim between the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one cop from Hiroshima went to Nagasaki to explain that the police there to duck when the bomb went off. When the bomb dropped there, not a single Nagasaki cop died in the initial blast.

So he knew Nagasaki would be the next target? Huh

To be fair, there were many people who, by an extraordinary coincidence, managed to survive both blasts. The makers of a documentary called Twice Survived: The Doubly Atomic Bombed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki managed to find 165 people who did. It’s a bizarre coincidence, I’ll give you that, but if at least 165 people had the dumb luck to be in Hiroshima when the bomb hit AND end up in Nagasaki a few days later just in time for that bomb to go off, this isn’t quite as far-fetched as it might seem.
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