History repeats itself, again, and again....

[RAT]

They tried this in the 50s, again in the 60s, and now they are at it again.

U.S. rethinks strategy for an unthinkable attack

Administration's problem: How to spread advice without causing alarm?


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40689998...new_york_times

[Roger]

I like the one asswipes comment that the chances of terrorist's obtaining a nuke are near zero.
Well:
1. North Korea has nukes, I'll bet they wouldn't mind giving one to Al Qaeda.

2. Iran will soon have them. I'll bet they wouldn't mind giving one to Al Qaeda.

3. Near zero is not zero.

Do they think we are all stupid?

[jimmyrig]

Kind of makes me think of the old 70s training video they showed us in boot camp....In the event of a bomb lay facing the blast with helmet towards blast...Tuck feet low to the ground....Ahhh those were great..

[Pikeman]

Jimmy you left off, Close your eyes do not look at the blast you will go blind. After feeling the pressure wave of some IED's that will lift a 20k cargo truck and tip it over I knew the other stuff they taught us about blasts was BS.

[jimmyrig]

But Pikeman they wouldn't lie to us...

[RAT]

this what I grew up with


http://videosift.com/video/Original-...-Training-Film

In the Navy we were told we would survive a nuclear blast at sea but if you watch any of the film from the bikini tests, things like desks, chairs, bunks all take off at the speed of sound through the compartments, some actually penetrating the hull! Oh yeah, that's survivable...

[sarah]

That's quite a scary article. I think it's funny how they keeping calling nuke-dropping people terrorists.. I'm no history buff or anything, but didn't we drop TWO on Japan this past century?

Wikipedia says "A Japanese report on the bombing characterized Nagasaki as "like a graveyard with not a tombstone standing"."

[1 Bad F N Z]

Wow look at all the thin kids out walking and playing and riding bikes. Don't see that today.

[RAT]

Wow look at all the thin kids out walking and playing and riding bikes. Don't see that today.

Amen to that!

[Mike]

Wow look at all the thin kids out walking and playing and riding bikes. Don't see that today.

That's because there aren't any thin kids in America.

[TipsE-Z]

That's because there aren't any thin kids in America.

But we have a ton of "professional gamers"! Far as bomb training... I watched the same video in '03. Oh how the military doesn't change.