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What actually happens if a city gets nuked [video]
- zelienople 7y agoThis is brain dead. The animation shows a ground detonation, but fails to make any distinction between that and an air burst. Nor does it mention the yield of the weapon. Details are important. This should be called "Nuclear Weapons Explained to Morons By Morons".
- jscheel 7y agoIn my agency days, I produced this video (which was part of a larger campaign about surviving a nuclear attack in a city). Was a ton of fun, and quite sobering: https://vimeo.com/29382035 https://vimeo.com/29382035
- madacoo 7y ago# August 6, 1945 In the Enola Gay five minutes before impact he whistles a dry tune Later he will say that the whole blooming sky went up like an apricot ice. Later he will laugh and tremble at such a surrender, for the eye of his belly saw Marilyn's skirts fly over her head for ever On the river bank, bees drizzle over hot white rhododendrons Later she will walk the dust, a scarlet girl with her whole stripped skin at her heel, stuck like an old shoe sole or mermaid's tail Later she will lie down in the flecked black ash where the people are become as lizards or salamanders and, blinded, she will complain Mother you are late. So late Later in dreams he will look down shrieking and see ladybirds ladybirds Alison Fell
- daveslash 7y agoI had not seen or hear-of this poem before. I'm familiar with the bombing of Hiroshima from a historical standpoint, but I can't say that I really understood this poem. I searched online for an explanation. I found this document. It looks like some sort of literature homework. It helped quite a bit. http://essalanglit.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/5/4/10543533/august_6_1945.pdf http://essalanglit.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/5/4/10543533/augus...
- flyingfences 7y agoOne of the greatest articles that I have ever read was a narrative of some of the people who survived the Hiroshima bombing, recounted a year after the event. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
- clSTophEjUdRanu 7y agoYou never nuke a city once. To overwhelm missile defense you must send many nukes to increase your odds of success. So imagine multiple nukes peppering the same city.
- edpichler 7y agoFor me, throwing bombs like this in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are as evil as the holocaust.
- trashE 7y agoI've got some bad news for you... https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY
- bitlax 7y agoWhat's your reasoning?
- edpichler 7y agoI don't see a difference on the evilness rate of who kills a two hundred thousand or who kill a million civilians. I understand each side had different reasons, but I am talking just about the evilness on that. During the war, everybody is evil.
- bitlax 7y agoOh ok, so your personal definition of evil just includes every belligerent act.
- victoro0 7y agoA nuke would not "desintegrate" steel-reinforced concrete buildings.