#atom bomb

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[nemfrog]

A flash brighter than any. Bert the turtle says duck and cover. 1951.

The well known classroom atomic war cartoon presented in a booklet,

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[stone-cold-groove]

Cold war era Civil Defense public awareness/propaganda poster - 1951.

[luxnmaggy]

The most SAVAGE light of all! 💥

[chernobog13]

AUGUST 6, 1945

With all the nonsense going on in the US, as well as elsewhere in the world, it might get lost that today is the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.

Use of nuclear weapons gets tossed about quite loosely these days, especially by idiots like Cheetolini and his ilk, without any real regard for what the actual cost to human beings would be.

I think it should be mandatory for any leader of a country armed with nuclear weapons to tour Hiroshima and its Peace Park. It's a sobering experience, and a reminder of how terrible man's inhumanity to man can be.

I don't care where you fall in the argument about whether dropping the bomb was beneficial in ending the War in the Pacific.

But it's an undisputed fact that the majority of people killed in the bombing, and the subsequent on in Nagasaki, were civilians. They were not combatants on the front lines.

And that will be the case again if these weapons - which are thousands of times more powerful than the ones 80 years ago - are ever used again.

It won't be the leaders who caused the war. It won't be the demagogues calling for the annihilation of the "enemy."

It will be ordinary people like you and me.

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Cold War loomed large over American life, especially in the 1950s. Here, third graders at P.S. 152 in Queens duck under classroom tables as a civil defense exercise on November 21, 1951. The camera records their actions for the Federal Civil Defense Administration film, “Duck and Cover,” to teach school children about what to do in the event of an atomic attack. (Although how much protection the tables would be is highly debatable.)

Photo: Robert Wands for the AP