They mostly date from approximately 1916-1938! Orwellian or Wells'ian maybe, Cold-War - never! _ Unknown said.īTW, the "woman cutting onions" photo is a) relatively recent and b) photoshopped. The vast bulk of these photographs are not only NOT from the Cold-War, they're not even 2nd World War. Those plans has become more bloodthirsty with each next year before Russia invented its own a-bomb. ".know more about gas masks than modern generation." Pfff, I "Wear it once", but I'm not "get scarred for life." "To scare yourself even more" find info about "Drop-shot", "Broiler" and several other plans of nuclear attack on Russia. If you think humans are bad, I recommend that you start by topping yourself. I've never understood the whole 'humans are bad, nature is good' self loathing. Sure, it'd recover, but it would take a loooong time (millions of years). You'd be left with a planet of plants, bugs, fish, and a few small mammals and slimey reptiles. We could become extinct, but so would most other mammals (certainly anything over 5kg), most birds, most existing reptiles, and a lot of marine life. To kill us, you'd have to kill a very large number of Earth's species. We can eat almost anything, except trees and grasses however, we can eat pretty much anything that eats trees and grasses. That post-apocalypse timeline is just plain silly. I mean, hell, nobody is still sure what an all out nuclear war would do to the earth today. _ Anonymous considering the era the timeline was made the government and public at large were still pretty naive about the total effects of a nuclear war, let alone something really random like an asteroid strike. not to mention the "pollution" such events would cause. after all, if there was all-out nuclear war or an asteroid strike, presumably the endangered species and fish stocks et al would be seriously effected. The Soviets detonated the largest nuclear bomb ever at 50 megatons which was an astounding 3,000 times the explosive power of Hiroshima. I found it on this page, with attribution. I believe the "End of the World" time line comes from the Times Online. Related Posts: Cold War Phones, Russian Ballistic Missile Carriers nuclear waste remains deadly for 2 million years. in 50,000 years all glass and plastics disappear. in 1000 years most brick, concrete and stone buildings are gone. in 50 years all cities are overgrown with vegetation. This fascinating chart details the time-line of complete disappearance of any trace of human civilization from Earth, in case of an "extinction event": asteroid strike, or all-out nuclear war. "Bomb Paranoia" starts early: marvel at Hitler's plans to bomb America in 1946: The intruder in Duluth had finally been identified: it was a bear." The pilots assumed that a full-scale nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union had begun, and the planes were about to take off when a car from the air traffic control tower raced down the tarmac and signaled the planes to stop. However, at the Volk Field air base in Wisconsin, the Klaxon loudspeaker had been wired incorrectly, and instead sounded an alarm ordering F-106A interceptors armed with nuclear missiles to take off. He shot at the intruder and activated an intruder alarm, automatically setting off intruder alarms at neighboring bases. "On Octo(during the Cuban Missile Crisis) a security guard at an air base in Duluth, Minnesota, saw a shadowy figure scaling one of the fences enclosing the base. To scare yourself even more, read this excellent list of Have a look at this comparison of nuclear bombs, starting with the "microscopic" Hiroshima bomb: Threat of nuclear destruction was very tangible then (some argue, even as it is now). Here are some ultimately creepy shots from "gas mask" nuclear defense craze in the 50s and 60s: Those of you who remember the "hottest" days of the Cold War (Cuban Missile Crisis, Brezhnev's Fight with Imperialism, etc) will know more about gas masks than modern generation. Send us your topic ideas, suggestions, etc.
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