Thanks Alex, meanwhile in the US all of the fallout shelters signs are being removed and those dedicated spaces that could be used to save people are no longer accessable or used to hold janitor supplies. Madness. While Russia still has theirs and can actually protect many of their citizens.
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".
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.
Nice to see that he did his research, because in 1982 Poseidon was the primary SLBM in the US inventory. Polaris was retired, and only a small number of Trident and Trident Backfit submarines were in service. Most sources that talk about US SLBMs seem to jump straight from Polaris to Trident and ignore Poseidon entirely.
OTOH, it's a bit odd that he didn't emphasize Trident as they were a hot topic at the time as the 726 class was coming online.
The Soviet Union did, in fact, have ICBMs with 20 MT warheads. As many as 210 R-36 in 1973, down to 30 R-36M/R-36MUTTH in 1978-1990 (they probably stayed longer while R-36MUTTH were being withdrawn from service). See Table 1 in https://russianforces.org/podvig/2008/06/the_window_of_vulnerability_that_wasnt.html
Thanks Alex, meanwhile in the US all of the fallout shelters signs are being removed and those dedicated spaces that could be used to save people are no longer accessable or used to hold janitor supplies. Madness. While Russia still has theirs and can actually protect many of their citizens.
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".
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.
Nice to see that he did his research, because in 1982 Poseidon was the primary SLBM in the US inventory. Polaris was retired, and only a small number of Trident and Trident Backfit submarines were in service. Most sources that talk about US SLBMs seem to jump straight from Polaris to Trident and ignore Poseidon entirely.
OTOH, it's a bit odd that he didn't emphasize Trident as they were a hot topic at the time as the 726 class was coming online.