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Golias's avatar

Reminded me of a strange book - The Nuclear War Fun Book, by Victor Langer and Walther Thomas. I found a copy (in Spanish) back in the 80´s. It was supposed to be "fun", but its humor was dark as hell. I was scared and surprised to find it was being sold as a book for children (which I was then). Many, many years later, I bought a copy. I still find it incredibly dark, and even a little fun - probably we can call it "aggressive pacifism".

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Scott W. Kurth's avatar

The maps of Chicago are fascinating to me. I grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago in the late 70s and early 80s with an ex-Navy submariner, nuclear engineer for a father. I always remember him saying that we lived "too far outside the city to be lucky enough to die in the blast if there were a nuclear attack". It was something we would talk about at home very nonchalantly. I gave a speech on "How to survive a nuclear war" for one of my high school English classes complete with Geiger counter demonstrations from the decommissioned fallout shelter equipment from my grandparent's church. They made for curious and unsettling toys for a child, but it was an interesting learning experience. These maps really put that into a much more vivid light.

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