October 23rd, 2009

Not good times

Just got off the phone with someone at the Minnesota Historical Society about a... side project I'm working on. I took a look at their website while waiting for him to scan something and e-mail it to me and found this:

That's what was drawn up sometime in the 80s about the effect of a nuclear bomb would have if dropped at the state fair grounds here in MN. I would have lived about... four miles from ground zero as long as it had gone off after 1986, though my parents still would have been within five miles of ground zero from 1981 on. Thankfully it didn't happen, but it is still scary to think about.

My dreams are likely to be unpleasant tonight.

Posted 3 months ago by nlafleur Comments (7)	+ 3 Ditto

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_Fire_Ball_

7 Months

#1 Posted 3 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Wow that is scary.

damnclem

Owl Ur Base

#2 Posted 3 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Think about this instead: It's Minnesota, no one cares about it enough to drop a nuclear weapon on it.

Moeparker

KingOfBlades

#3 Posted 3 months ago	+ 1 Ditto [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
....Megaton!

slvrwhispr

ALL DONE

#4 Posted 3 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
In reply to damnclem, #2: Think about this instead: It's Minnesota, no one cares about it enough to drop a nuclear weapon on it. This. Seriously, what are the odds? Minnesota is about as non-threatening as it gets.

Patawan

RetiredGamer

#5 Posted 3 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
It's good for people to keep the bigger picture in mind. Although it's not comforting to think that I would be dead after 20 minutes of agony, and my dog's death would take substantially longer. In reply to damnclem, #2: There are enough nuclear weapons on this planet to wipe out every major city on the planet. The Twin Cities qualifies.

SloeBombFizz

Raslin Kevin

I remember these.
In Reagan's America, this was important information. Fucking psycho.

This was the very real facts of the soviet half of MAD. I'm sure Minneapolis was one of the targets. All major metro areas were. So were significant parts of the plains and anywhere near US missile silos or military or manufacturing centers. You and your folks had it good... that close to the intended ground zero would have meant an easy time of it. The poor bastards farther out along the fringe of the blast radius would have suffered much more.

Aoina

Game On

#7 Posted 2 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
CLOTHING EFFING IGNITES ON BODIES?

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