Showing posts with label nuclear holocaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuclear holocaust. Show all posts
Monday, October 1, 2018
DeKalb a Bad Place to Be in a Nuclear Attack
From the July 11, 2018, MidWeek "Looking Back."
1968, 50 Years Ago.
"On an average day, there are about 35,000 people within the city of DeKalb. If radioactive fallout from a nuclear attack (or from a train or truck accident involving radioactive materials) were to settle in DeKalb only 119 of those people would stand a good chance of surviving.
"The Rice Hotel (148 N. 3rd Street) and the Drs. Smith building (261 East Lincoln Highway) are the only buildings which have been approved by the U.S. Corps of Engineers for shelter space and are stocked."
Very Comforting Thoughts Back Then. --CootDead
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sure Scared Me Fifty Years Ago: The Cuban Missile Crisis
From the Oct. 22, 2012, Northwest Herald (Il)
"Kennedy averts Cuban Missile Crisis Disaster" by Joseph C. Morton.
On this day (Oct. 22) 1962, President John F. Kennedy appeared on TV to inform the country that the Soviets were constructing nuclear missile sites in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S..
That was the first the citizens had heard of it, although it had been going on since Oct. 13th. They just hadn't told us. The whole thing lasted 13 days before the Soviet Union finally backed down.
I figured that I was a goner. Here I was in 6th grade, and already doomed. Sure, we had always had nuclear holocaust drills where we had to get on out knees, put our heads on the floor and cover our heads with our arms. Kind of an embarrassing position to say the least. And we had to do it under our desks. That position and those desks were really going to protect us if a big one went off nearby. Just a lot of real burned heinies sticking up in the air at best.
I remember seeing all the photgraphs in the next day's newspapers.
Way Too Young To Die. --DaCoot
"Kennedy averts Cuban Missile Crisis Disaster" by Joseph C. Morton.
On this day (Oct. 22) 1962, President John F. Kennedy appeared on TV to inform the country that the Soviets were constructing nuclear missile sites in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S..
That was the first the citizens had heard of it, although it had been going on since Oct. 13th. They just hadn't told us. The whole thing lasted 13 days before the Soviet Union finally backed down.
I figured that I was a goner. Here I was in 6th grade, and already doomed. Sure, we had always had nuclear holocaust drills where we had to get on out knees, put our heads on the floor and cover our heads with our arms. Kind of an embarrassing position to say the least. And we had to do it under our desks. That position and those desks were really going to protect us if a big one went off nearby. Just a lot of real burned heinies sticking up in the air at best.
I remember seeing all the photgraphs in the next day's newspapers.
Way Too Young To Die. --DaCoot
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