How To Survive A Nuclear Bomb
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Can you survive an nuclear bomb? What chance do you have of surviving nuclear war?
Are you able to survive a nuclear war? What are the steps you can take to ensure your survival after a nuclear bomb or attack? Can you survive nuclear attacks? What do you do when there is a nuclear explosion?
Despite the devastating consequences of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 people still survived. Many people of course survived the atomic bomb attacks and suffered radiation sickness and genetic disorders occurred decades later. Surviving an atomic bomb is therefore a relative term because you might survive the initial blast and still die days, months, years later from the after effects of burns and radiation. When I was at school I was given what was called a 1 in 10 talk. This meant that every tenth child was instructed how to survive a nuclear attack in the hope that a few people would survive and keep the nation going.
I was mystified even at that age, just how, armed with a bucket of water and a stirrup pump that I was going to douse nuclear fires. As for tying labels to dead relatives toes and leaving them outside that was quite another matter. Whilst the super powers of the mid 20th century might have reached an understanding limiting the increase and spread of nuclear weapons through the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
It seems that the 21st century world remains under the threat of nuclear attack from so called rogue states and terrorist groups. It seems self evident that such awesome power in the hands of the autocrat or the maniac is a terrifying prospect.
Contents at a Glance
"I am become death,
the destroyer of worlds."
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Iranian Nuclear Ambitions
Rogue States - Iran
Nuclear power or nuclear weapons, Iran still wants to become a Nuclear Power
Ironically Iran's nuclear programme was started by the USA. The big concern today is whether or not Iran is using nuclear technology for peaceful or aggressive ends. Whilst it seems that iran does not possess Nuclear Weapons at this time the situation is tense and fluid.
Many contemporary commentators are sceptical of Iran's nuclear ambitions, as seen in these cartoons.
The leadership of Iran perceives that it is 'hemmed in' by enemies, and despite President Obamas offer of open dialogue there has been little in the way of conciliation.
By February 2012 the temperature of diplomatic feeling towards Iran had significantly cooled with British Foreign Minister William Hague suggesting a new Cold War with Iran could be imminent.
What do you think about Iran's Nuclear Ambitions?
Will Israel Strike At Iran's Nuclear Capability
Will Israel Pre-emtively Attack Iran's Nuclear Facilities?
Yes
No
ray hill says:
yes but it will cause a major unforeseen escalation that will cause ww3, The signs of the immanency of ww3 can NOT be disguised by the main players There will be major movements of weaponry and troops into their pre - planned positions much of the hardware will be dispersed over large areas to avoid an anticipated nuclear surprise attack! There will be constant appeals on TV for blood donations When this happens WW3 will be imminent Ray Hill
Links suggesting Israel will not attack Iranian nuclear facilities
BBC News - Obama warns of force against Iran, but urges diplomacy
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Obama Calls For Containing Iran, Says 'too Much Loose Talk Of War' | Fox News
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BBC News - Why the White House is not on the war path over Iran
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BBC News - Why the White House is not on the war path over Iran
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Links suggesting Israel will attack Iranian nuclear facilities
Gingrich Says Israel Can't Let Iran Go Nuclear - ABC News
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Israel Reportedly Considers Pre-Emptive Attack on Iran
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Iran's Nuclear Programme
Tracking Iranian Nuclear Ambitions
- Iran's Khamenei: Israel risks `lightning' reply
- Iran's Supreme Leader warned Sunday that any Israeli attack would be answered with a "lightning" response by the Islamic Republic and suggested Iran's nuclear program cannot be curtailed by Western sanctions. By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press No ...
- IAEA board to discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions
- VIENNA (June 2, 2012): Iran's nuclear ambitions will again be in the spotlight when the UN atomic watchdog meets next week to discuss if Iranian scientists have used a military base for illicit nuclear weapons tests. The International Atomic Energy ...
- cyber-battles raise fears of cyber-blowback
- david singer wrote about what the united states is doing to slow down iran's nuclear ambitions, if you will. tell us about the article and what we learned from it. >> it was a fascinating, fascinating story. and it details how the united states now ...
- Russian firm: Iran victim of powerful new cyberattack
- Its origin has not been identified, but Israel's vice premier fueled speculation that his country, known for its technological innovation and tireless campaign against Iran's suspect nuclear program, unleashed it. Russian digital security provider ...
Nuclear Bomb Tweets
Rogue States - North Korea
Their language and behaviour - survival involves knowing your enemy
North Korean Nuclear tweets
"I do not believe that civilization
will be wiped out in a war fought
with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people
of the earth will be killed."
Albert Einstein
Hiroshima Bomb Survivors
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"the use of the atomic bomb,
with its indiscriminate killing of
women and children,
revolts my soul"
Herbert Hoover
Hiroshima Tweets
Tsutomu Yamaguchi.
renowned survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
- Mutually assured destruction: old concept in a new venue
- By David E. Sanger WASHINGTON -- It took years after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima for the nation to develop a common national understanding of when and how to use a weapon of such magnitude. Not until after the Cuban Missile ...
- Iran denies atomic bomb ambition
- Iran denies atomic bomb ambition Updated: 20:55, Sunday June 3, 2012 Iran denied it was seeking an atomic bomb, and said western suspicion that its nuclear program has a military dimension is a 'lie.' 'In order to ignore the problems in their own ...
- Argentine economy official denies peso devaluation rumors, says no 'atomic ...
- "They're trying to say that I'm launching an atomic bomb," Kicillof complained. "It's a total invention, designed to create panic." "When one says that the government is going to take away savings and take money from safety deposit boxes, what they're ...
- SANGER ON OBAMA'S A-BOMB: US USED CYBERWEAPONS TO CRIPPLE IRAN INFRASTRUCTURE ...
- ?It appears to be the first time the United States has repeatedly used cyberweapons to cripple another country's infrastructure, achieving, with computer code, what until then could be accomplished only by bombing a country or sending in agents to ...
"In nuclear war
all men are cremated equal."
Dexter Gordon
Atomic Bomb Tweets
U.S. Defense Plan Against Clandestine Nuclear Attacks
Nuclear War
- Flame: A glimpse into the future of war
- These three pieces of malware are hard evidence of cyberspying and, in the case of Stuxnet, sabotage of Iran's nuclear program with malware to preempt a military strike, according to a New York Times article based on reporter David Sanger's new book.
- NUCLEAR WAR-FEAR
- ... presidential and congressional elections, are outraged at Obama's refusal and failure to take forceful action to remove the Islamic regime in Iran and eliminate the threat of their planned nuclear war against the United States, Israel and the West.
- A Whisper of Nuclear War Spurs a Sell-Off in a Russian Stock Market
- MOSCOW ? An unusually candid reference to nuclear war by Russia's prime minister prompted a sell-off in the nation's stock market this week, underscoring how nervous traders here have become about worsening relations with the West, a street protest ...
- War with Iran is Inevitable
- My conclusion ? war is inevitable; either the US or Israel will have to undertake military action to stop Iran before the mullahs reach a nuclear status because sanctions and negotiations will not come up to scratch ? was met by emotional left-minded ...
"Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize
that they'd been kept in the dark
by the United States government
as to what atomic bombs can do. "
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Prescription for Survival
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
IPPNW is the only international medical organization dedicated to preventing nuclear war and abolishing nuclear weapons.
Prescription for Survival:
A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness
(BK Currents)
IPPNW
Bernard Lown
Prescription For Survival
International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Surviving a Nuclear Attack on Amazon
Surviving Nuclear Attack Links
- How To Survive a Nuclear Attack
- A nuclear attack is one of the most frightening things that could happen, period. Just the explosion alone can kill millions. Unfortunately, even after the blast nuclear weapons can do damage through something called nuclear fallout.
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- Hack Green
- Hack Green - The countries best kept SECRET NUCLEAR BUNKER
- WW3 - Survival Tips, Survival Guides, Survival Gear and Survival Kits
- World War 3 is coming whether you like it or not. Learn how
to survive the next terrorist attack with my Survival Tips, Survival Guides and Survival Kits. - You Will Survive Doomsday
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- Survival Communities
- State Maps and Information
- Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker « The Future of Self-Knowledge
- the thinking behind the FATE Institute
- The Kelvedon Hatch secret Nuclear Bunker Appreciation Society | Facebook
- Klevedon Hatch Bunker
- Subbrit ROC DATABASE
- Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted
to the study and investigation of man-made and man-used underground places. - Underground Bomb Shelter
- Designing, building, and managing your underground bomb shelter. Bomb shelter construction. You've probably come to the Underground Bomb Shelter web site because of your concern for an impending - or worse - actual nuclear attack.
Nuclear Attack Tweets
Nuclear Disarmament Links
- Will You Tweet for Peace with General Ban Ki-moon?
- About the We Must Disarm social media campaign.
Posted on Everything PR
Nuclear Bunker Stuff on Amazon
Nuclear Attack Films on Amazon
More Nucelar Attack Films on Amazon
Nuclear Attack Survivors
- Katsuji Yoshida
- Mr.Yoshida was a second year student in the shipbuilding course at Nagasaki Prefecture School of Industrial Science. He received three major skin transplant operations at the Omura Naval Hospital after the bombing and has undergone numerous transplants since then.
- Hiroshima Survivor Recalls Day Atomic Bomb Was Dropped
- With audio links
- Memoirs of an Atomic Bomb Survivor: Shigeko Sasamori, UCLA International Institute
- Memoirs of an Atomic Bomb Survivor: Shigeko Sasamori - UCLA Professor James Yamazaki speaks with Shigeko Sasamori, one of the so-called Hiroshima Maidens, who survived the atomic bombing and were brought to the US for reconstructive surgery in 1955 by Norman Cousins and the readers of Saturday Review.
- Voice of Hibakusha
- Voice of Hibakusha and others - Testimony of the
Survivors of the Hiroshima Bombing
The estimated effect of a nuclear bomb on Portsmouth Naval Dockyard UK
Blast Protection
Modern Shelter
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Treatment of Radiation Sickness
Regretably there's not alot that can be done
- Radiation sickness
- Link to Columbia Encyclopeadia
- Treatments for Radiation sickness - WrongDiagnosis.com
- Treatments for Radiation sickness including drugs, prescription medications, alternative treatments, surgery, and lifestyle changes.
- Radiation poisoning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Radiation poisoning, also called "radiation sickness" or a "creeping dose", is a form of damage to organ tissue due to excessive exposure to ionizing radiation.
Nuclear Attack Survival Blog Posts
- Facing Existential Risk: How the US Survived the Atom Bomb and the Ozone Hole
- I explore how existential risk has shaped foreign policy by tracing the domestic debate over nuclear war and ozone depletion. I conclude that a collective belief that either risk would end the human race pushed the US to cooperate instead of pursuing ...
- Apocalypse-proof condos already sold out
- You can survive the end of the world in this charming nuclear missile silo. The views aren't great, but there won't be anything to see outside anyway. by Tim Hornyak In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit the remnants of humanity.
- Russian firm: Iran victim of another cyberattack
- Israel, like the West, rejects Tehran's claims that its nuclear program is designed to produce energy, not bombs. It considers Iran to be the greatest threat to its survival and repeatedly, if obliquely, threatened to attack Iran's nuclear facilities ...
- Survival Matters
- In the 1960s and 1970s, successive presidents decided not to pursue serious defenses against Soviet strategic nuclear attack because of the belief that meaningful protection could not be sustained given possible Soviet offensive counter-moves, ...
You and the Atomic Bomb
An account by George Orwell
Orwell's essay You and The Atomic Bomb begins "Considering how likely we all are to be blown to pieces by it within the next five years, the atomic bomb has not roused so much discussion as might have been expected. The newspapers have published numerous diagrams, not very helpful to the average man, of protons and neutrons doing their stuff, and there has been much reiteration of the useless statement that the bomb 'ought to be put under international control.' But curiously little has been said, at any rate in print, about the question that is of most urgent interest to all of us, namely: 'How difficult are these things to manufacture?'
Surviving Nuclear Attack
Google Books
- Weapons of Mass Destruction - What You Should Know
- G.I.Nwana
- Introduction To Weapons of Mass Destruction
- R.Everett Langford
Dismantling A Nuclear Bomb
Should you cut the blue wire or the red wire?
This is a fascinating article from the BBC explains what to do if you find yourself in the last chance saloon. Just you and the bomb! Here's what to do...
How to dismantle a nuclear bomb
Close Calls With Nuclear Weapons
- The Day 2 Atomic Bombs Were Dropped on North Carolina
- An amazing and sobering story from suziecat7 of Asheville NC. Check her out on Red Gage too
How would you survive a nuclear disaster?
Do have recommendations for how to survive a nuclear disaster?
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naheedahsan
Feb 21, 2012 @ 12:51 am | delete
- Hopefully it won't happen,
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bejeezers Feb 20, 2012 @ 4:04 pm | delete
- Like most people - I hope this never becomes reality.
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termit_bronx
Jan 16, 2012 @ 3:51 pm | delete
- I live in city where we have a Nuclear Plant!
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Tipi
Dec 12, 2011 @ 3:23 pm | delete
- I've been sitting here in stunned silence and pondering what it would be to be one who witness both explosions and survive....to never have a peaceful nights sleep. Devastatingly well done and blessed.
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Poetryman Dec 11, 2011 @ 10:39 pm | delete
- kind of retro, unless Iran manages to sneak one by us.
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DavidDove
Aug 29, 2011 @ 7:06 am | delete
- In the services, given the level of (non existent) protection we had I understood that closing the eyes and singing la-la-la-la-lalalalal out really loud would make it go away, seemed to work, I'm still here. There is no defence for the ordinary person, full stop, sad and frightening.
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Cinnamonbite
Jul 13, 2011 @ 10:56 am | delete
- I'm close enough to a major target that I don't have to worry about surviving...for long. I lived this every day of my teen years in the 80s so I just don't have the energy to care anymore.
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moonlitta
May 17, 2011 @ 7:49 am | delete
- Letting you know this lens is featured in the Top Ten Educational and How-to Lenses!
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yourgoldenfuture
Mar 12, 2011 @ 1:32 pm | delete
- only fools think they can survive a nuclear war...i dont believe north korea etc will really use them.. they just want to keep people in fear...
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moonlitta
Feb 19, 2011 @ 9:54 pm | delete
- Much like the rest I hope it won't happen...still it's a good think you wrote this lens:)
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george185
Dec 7, 2010 @ 8:58 pm | delete
- I think the best way to survive a nuclear attack is to be somewhere else.
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d-artist Feb 18, 2010 @ 5:03 pm | delete
- too bad this even exsits...but if they drop one here, I hope it's a direct hit on my house...I don't want to live through it and deal with the aftermath, cause it will be different then before....5*
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JCSeattle
Jan 21, 2010 @ 5:20 pm | delete
- Hopefully it won't happen, as everyone in major cities won't have a chance. But is a good idea to be prepared for the basics. Nice lens!
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