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Old 14-01-2018, 04:06 PM
gary
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Hi Bob,

It must have been dreadful to be in Hawaii and receive that text message.

I recollect being in the US in the 80's and you would be driving listening to
the radio and an announcement would come over "This is a test of the
Emergency Broadcasting System". Then they would play a tone and then
it would sign off with, "This has been a test of the Emergency Broadcasting
System".

They would do the same on TV :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdpLWML_tDU


The best plan is to help ensure that such an event never happens in the first place.

Even a limited nuclear exchange would be the worst day in the history of civilization.

If you new such a threat is imminent and you had time, the first thing you would do is fill the bath tub with water.

This 1959 US Civil Defence training film is a reminder of the spectre of nuclear holocaust during the Cold War :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE-nji8-1Ko

Some of the effects from a nuclear detonation are chronicled here :-
http://www.abomb1.org/nukeffct/enw77b1.html
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