Children in 1979 vs 2011

[jimmy olsen]

Didn't you also learn that when a nuclear attack comes, you need to lie down with your feet towards the eruption and cover your face with a newspaper?

Is this what was taught in Poland?  In the US they taught the Duck and Cover drills which were later mocked for their perceived ineffectiveness.  From what I've come to understand about nuclear weaponry "Duck and Cover" seemed sound advice. True, if you are at ground zero and right underneath the fireball, it won't do much good.  But if you are several miles away ( which most people would likely be), it could very well save your life.

Didn't the Soviets have an extensive Civil Defense effort that built bunkers, practiced evacuations and such?


http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1977/mar-apr/dorough.html

Or was that another hyped ability of theirs that they didn't actually have?

[Richard Hakluyt]

I was 9 in 1979.  I would take off my my bike and my friends and be gone all day with no way to get in touch with anyone or any way for them to find me. 

I get nervous when my high school aged daughters are home 10 minutes late and they both carry cell phones. 

Where does this fear come from ?

It is parental self-indulgence. Parents have a very strong protective instinct, in recent years this has been given free rein and the counter-balancing need to encourage children to develop independence neglected.

What a broad stroke, sweeping bunch of horse shit.

Much like your reply then 

[Warspite]

At the age of seven I was in charge of our house's air raid drills during the first Gulf War. 

[Richard Hakluyt]

Didn't you also learn that when a nuclear attack comes, you need to lie down with your feet towards the eruption and cover your face with a newspaper?

Is this what was taught in Poland?  In the US they taught the Duck and Cover drills which were later mocked for their perceived ineffectiveness.  From what I've come to understand about nuclear weaponry "Duck and Cover" seemed sound advice. True, if you are at ground zero and right underneath the fireball, it won't do much good.  But if you are several miles away ( which most people would likely be), it could very well save your life.

Raz, I visited Hiroshima some years ago, they have an excellent museum there and I was fascinated by a display about people who survived quite close to the blast and others who died at a much greater distance. Ducking under a desk worked surprisingly well, there was a school class where some of them looked and the others got under their desks.........the difference in death rate was stark. A few hundred yards from the blast there was a gas storage tank.......the people who lived in its shadow survived, an entire suburb was protected by a low ridge only about 50 feet high.......and so on.......

[11B4V]

I was 9 in 1979.  I would take off my my bike and my friends and be gone all day with no way to get in touch with anyone or any way for them to find me. 

I get nervous when my high school aged daughters are home 10 minutes late and they both carry cell phones. 

Where does this fear come from ?

It is parental self-indulgence. Parents have a very strong protective instinct, in recent years this has been given free rein and the counter-balancing need to encourage children to develop independence neglected.

What a broad stroke, sweeping bunch of horse shit.

Much like your reply then 

Quite

[The Brain]

In the olden days people hade more kids so watching them all was simply impossible.

[The Brain]

In 1979 the average IQ of the parent was 26. In 2011 it was 19. 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-19.

[jimmy olsen]

Didn't you also learn that when a nuclear attack comes, you need to lie down with your feet towards the eruption and cover your face with a newspaper?

Is this what was taught in Poland?  In the US they taught the Duck and Cover drills which were later mocked for their perceived ineffectiveness.  From what I've come to understand about nuclear weaponry "Duck and Cover" seemed sound advice. True, if you are at ground zero and right underneath the fireball, it won't do much good.  But if you are several miles away ( which most people would likely be), it could very well save your life.

Didn't the Soviets have an extensive Civil Defense effort that built bunkers, practiced evacuations and such?


http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1977/mar-apr/dorough.html

Or was that another hyped ability of theirs that they didn't actually have?

Here's an other article on the subject.


http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1979/mar-apr/wolfe.html

The potential lifesaving effectiveness of the Soviet CD program is not a matter of unanimous agreement. However, several studies estimate casualty rates as low as two to three percent of the Soviet population in the event of nuclear war.25

[CountDeMoney]

In 1979 the average IQ of the parent was 26. In 2011 it was 19. 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-19.

:lol:Nobody's sooo not gonna get that.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Been a while since that song was out, only the board seniors will get it 

Mind you, the average age of this place must be going up steadily 

[Brazen]

Here's the UK's nuclear blast advice, "Protect and Survive". Do take a moment to watch this extract, it's incredibly creepy. The related links have the remainder of the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXx5Y2Fr2bk

As far as I'm aware it was never broadcast in earnest, though this leaflet was published in 1980:

http://scyfilove.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Nuclear-War-Survival-Guide-British-Government.pdf

[dps]

Didn't the Soviets have an extensive Civil Defense effort that built bunkers, practiced evacuations and such?


http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1977/mar-apr/dorough.html

Or was that another hyped ability of theirs that they didn't actually have?

Or did they just not share with their "allies"?  I wouldn't be surprised.

In the olden days people hade more kids so watching them all was simply impossible.

I suspect that you meant that in jest, but there is some truth to it.

[merithyn]

In the olden days people hade more kids so watching them all was simply impossible.

I wonder if this isn't the best answer yet. 

[Eddie Teach]

In the olden days people hade more kids so watching them all was simply impossible.

I wonder if this isn't the best answer yet. 

It would have been better if he sold the olde fashioned spelling more. As it stands that could just be a typo. 

[Ed Anger]

I gave my daughter a puppy recently. When she is 12 years old she will be required to strangle that puppy to death to show her strength. If she cannot, then she will be put to death.