Cold War Backyard Bomb Shelters

[HoneyBadger]

Nuclear detonations are a lot more survivable than most people think. Having even a small hill in between you and the detonation can make a huge difference (although most modern nukes are designed/programed to detonate 1km or many km in the air, so distance and a hill are your two friends, according to Pythagoras).

That being said.... living in a post-nuke world would be difficult and terrible. If you can't be really really far away from the detonation, then maybe being really really close is the next best thing.

[HoneyBadger]

FWIW, this is a conversation I've had many times with coworkers and family.... If I got notice of incoming ICBMs and my location was a target (4/5 places I've lived as an adult are very probable targets)... I would complete my job to the best of my ability, then step outside the building and call Mrs. HB if she was more than a few minutes away and we would watch the show together. I know a lot of cold war era military vets on both sides wrote about their plans to just walk away from their consoles if they saw missiles incoming. what a crazy concept.

[FoxtArt]

Since it is sort of on topic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=310-GYiitpM <--- map of all nukes to date, eye opening if people have not seen that already.

If people were not aware, nuclear winter is not a real thing, it was a psy-op by the KGP to plant the idea in U.S. periodicals to undercut the U.S. public's taste for the use of nuclear weapons. It is easily one of their most wildly effective missions. You still don't want to be near a blast site, but say, if India and Pakistan launched a ton of nukes at each other, outside of the spillover effects of a humanitarian crisis, it wouldn't affect us too much.

[BushMasterBoy]

Nuclear weapons accident killed my father. He died of multiple myeloma. I remember the radiation burns on his skin. He called them "beta burns". Johnston Island in the Pacific had to be abandoned. Did you know they detonated a nuclear weapon in Colorado to find natural gas ? All the natural gas released was radioactive after that. Don't even get me started about Rocky Flats...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_437


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_Atoll


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Rulison

[earplug]

I have been told by a old home builder that older homes in Security Widefield area have many shelters from the Cold War. My home was built in 1961.

[KevDen2005]

The Russians made a radioactive lake

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/0...lled-with.html

[BushMasterBoy]

Web cam chat girls are making fun of me on the internet.

[wctriumph]

There were two families that I saw bomb shelters at when I lived in Westchester in LA, CA. When our neighborhood was condemned for the LAX expansion in the mid 1970’s there were many vacant houses as people moved away. Upon exploring these vacant homes we found many things and two of the homes had underground shelters in their backyards. After the people moved out the city came in and cleared and removed the entrance doors. Both were the same with two rooms. The first room was for living with the second room for storage and shower and toilet. If I remember correctly, they were about the size of a one car garage, maybe a little smaller. They were underground and you had a pair of doors just above ground level that opened up and out like a cellar door and then you went down about 10 feet to a man door. These were removed when the people moved. All of the plumbing and electric were removed as well.
A few blocks away there had been a Nike missile battery. I remember seeing the missiles on their racks once. The place went inactive when I was about 10 years old.
Duck and cover drills were a regular part of school and air raid siren testing on the first Friday of every month at 10:00 AM sharp.

[O2HeN2]

Nike missile battery.

Coolest looking missile ever.

O2

[eddiememphis]

...Nike missile battery.

Were Uighurs forced to build them?