{"id":7353,"date":"2005-03-24T07:32:07","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/03\/24\/just-in-case-atom-bombs-fall.html"},"modified":"2005-03-24T07:32:07","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T14:32:07","slug":"just_in_case_at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/24\/just_in_case_at.html","title":{"rendered":"“Just in Case Atom Bombs Fall”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A delightful and horrifying Civil Defense pamphlet<\/a> (for Denver, no less) on the risks and dangers of an A-Bomb being dropped on the city.<\/p>\n

REMEMBER, IN REGARD TO A-BOMBS:<\/p>\n

1. Atomic weapons will not destroy the earth.<\/p>\n

2. Doubling bomb power doesn’t double destruction.<\/p>\n

3. Radioactivity is not the bomb’s greatest threat.<\/p>\n

4. Radiation sickness is not always fatal.<\/p>\n

The tone of calm reassurance and casual descriptions of utter disaster here are morbidly fascinating. My guess is that that this dates to about 1950-51 (the first H-Bomb test was in 1952<\/a>).<\/p>\n

(via the Flea<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A delightful and horrifying Civil Defense pamphlet (for Denver, no less) on the risks and dangers of an A-Bomb being dropped on the city. 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