Learning from the 1950s

Well it seems that the collapse of the Iron Curtain only allowed one real generation the freedom from fear of being annihilated in a nuclear fireball as it looks like we are trying to get back to that as a primary concern in our latest round of spread the fear.    Although we have very little chance of dying in a nuclear fireball our government will never let the fear dissipate as we can see.

So now it seems that the terrorists have not being doing all that much over the last few years, except of course in films and on the TV.   We need to re-stoke our fear, we are getting complacent and arguing with out government on policies they want to put through so it is time to redirect our activities back to non government issues, such are Iran getting the bomb and terrorists getting hold of it.  The peasants are revolting so lets get them scared of yet another bogey man.  They have always fallen for it before now.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

So expect to see some, updated, info films based on the ones in the 1950s where we were shown how to cower under a desk and urinate on sheets to stop the radiation getting in to our homes and schools.  Experts are asking the question ‘Is your city prepared for a home-made nuke?’.    Considering there is really no such thing as a homemade nuke they really mean a terrorist controlled nuke.  And I’ve never seen any factor 10,000 suncream so I suspect that we are all unprepared except for our useless governments who will make sure they live fine and well funded by us.

Personally, I much preferred the idea of radiation settling nicely on to a sheet of glass in the Middle East than us getting crisped over here but with the current western governments, every one of them, being all PC. anti everything phobic and whingy whiney it looks like Iran, and then the rest of the world, will have some nice shiny toys to play with soon.

Of course their primary target will not be western, it will be Israel who also has nukes.  With the US looking like it is hanging them out to dry at the moment they will clearly be seen as an easy touch.  They must be preparing and one of those steps must be deploying the nukes so that they can be used in retaliation.   Iran hits Israel and wipes it off the map, including Gaza btw but who cares about them anyway, and then Israel strikes back and I believe they have over 200 warheads, that is Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and they must be thinking it, a couple on the US to stir the pot.

The only problem with that is that when a nuke goes off in the Israel or the US then the current bunch of namby pamby officials will be replaced by some real hard liners and the world will change for the worse.    Does anyone really see China or Russia going to bat when Tehran is consumed in a nuclear fireball?   I don’t.   Unlike the nutters in the Middle East neither of those nations want a war and none believe in an afterlife.  They, like our own government, just make talk when it benefits them and they are not prime targets for the terrorists yet.

I had better get out the back and start digging my fallout shelter.  I wonder how many households have one of those built in the 1950s?