This is real: Cold War Patriots Resource Fair

 http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/09/cold-war-patriots.html

Cold War Patriots

The 4th annual Cold War Patriots Resource Fair will be held Sept. 27 at Y-12's New Hope Center, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
"Special features of the resource fair include complimentary blood pressure and oxygen saturation readings from Professional Case Management, entertainment from local musicians, free seasonal flu shots for qualifying Medicare recipients and light refreshments. Admission to the resource fair is free and door prizes will be given away every hour with a flat screen TV as the grand prize," the announcement said.

Get Nulclear Wasted: Rocky Flats Lounge

 Just added to my places to visit on my atomic detective tour of Rocky Flats:

"Rocky Flats Lounge is a watering hole on the site of a long closed-and-cleaned nuclear weapons plant. It was transformed in 1978 from the former payroll office. Their signature T-shirts urge you to “Get Nuclear Wasted”. Out back, you can gaze across the rocky flowered fields at the Flatirons, prop your feet on an old wire spool and drink a brew or throw a horseshoe."

*** From Quirkutopia

Alex Wellerstein's brilliant nuke map

http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

NPR Story on 5 Air Force Officers who stand under an atomic bomb blast.

"On July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers and one photographer stood together on a patch of ground about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. They'd marked the spot "Ground Zero. Population 5" on a hand-lettered sign hammered into the soft ground right next to them."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb

**** More frightening is the second video without the sound altering typically done in government videos. The silent cloud first. The bang and debris clatter second.

MG: The Beginning or the End Trailer, 1947

http://youtu.be/wvmQWzGyVWs

Nuclear Sword of Damacles

JFK to United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25, 1961:

"Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us."

http://youtu.be/Xuy_9B1joTE

The Gun Thy Neighbor Debate.

When you have to decide whether to let your neighbor in your fallout shelter, or to shoot them.