14-07-2012, 05:47 PM
The best Twilight Zone episodes bear a 1960 (MCMLX) copyright, the year Tom and Chuck and Mike and I dug in Chuck's parents' back yard to build the fallout shelter we were dead-serious we'd need.
Along with Fisher Body Craftsman Guild and Soap Box Derby literature, I had acquired pamphlets from Civil Defense with diagrams.
A right angle entrance corridor will reduce fallout, as will steel wool stuffed in an air pipe.
Later, in Santa Fe, working for scientists on the Hill, one told us about ground surfing the underground tests, along with playing adult pranks in the various test bunkers--BOO
The alternative to the gymnasium trip was under the desks, same head-down arms-clasped on neck position.
My father's ship USS Saratoga (CV-3) was sunk in a second test at Bikini I believe.
Probably the Beatles dispelled the gloom--along with the growing news of Vietnam.
Perhaps the preoccupation with nuclear exchange seems as dated as Eisenhower whose solemn warning has come true in spades.
Gates: DCI to SecDef. Panetta: DCI to SecDef. Petraeus: Theater Commander to DCI.
A military-intelligence shadow government.
With Hellfire-firing drones one presidential finding away from you, Citizen.
Those big warheads are so Twentieth Century.
At every hour the telescreen exhorts us to smash the brutal oppressor Assad.
Because the War-O-Meter is beginning to enter the dangerous red zone Withdrawal
The state rests on war
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Along with Fisher Body Craftsman Guild and Soap Box Derby literature, I had acquired pamphlets from Civil Defense with diagrams.
A right angle entrance corridor will reduce fallout, as will steel wool stuffed in an air pipe.
Later, in Santa Fe, working for scientists on the Hill, one told us about ground surfing the underground tests, along with playing adult pranks in the various test bunkers--BOO
The alternative to the gymnasium trip was under the desks, same head-down arms-clasped on neck position.
My father's ship USS Saratoga (CV-3) was sunk in a second test at Bikini I believe.
Probably the Beatles dispelled the gloom--along with the growing news of Vietnam.
Perhaps the preoccupation with nuclear exchange seems as dated as Eisenhower whose solemn warning has come true in spades.
Gates: DCI to SecDef. Panetta: DCI to SecDef. Petraeus: Theater Commander to DCI.
A military-intelligence shadow government.
With Hellfire-firing drones one presidential finding away from you, Citizen.
Those big warheads are so Twentieth Century.
At every hour the telescreen exhorts us to smash the brutal oppressor Assad.
Because the War-O-Meter is beginning to enter the dangerous red zone Withdrawal
The state rests on war
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