[Gort]

Check out the "Visual Guides" on this page - they rock! Also check out the root of the site for other fantastic graphical representations of public safety!

http://www.ready.gov/nuclear.html
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- Tom Carter

"You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf" - Jack Kornfield

[brainwash]

http://www.ready.gov/i/nuc_vis_building.gif
"3. Or if it would be better to go inside a building and follow your plan to "shelter-in-place"."

...and take your time, dude, no need to hurry... Listen to some folk music while slowly walking away from the center of the nuclear mass destruction...

But wistful is that everyone DOES believe this... I think in the US this danger/security feel is even more forced than everywhere else, but here in Europe we luckily really ARE secure!

[Giant Hamster]

Atomic Cafe - 06.mp3

Download the rest of them

[Matthew]

you think we are brainwash?, In case of any bombing it would be easier for Saddam to nuke us.
Regarding the Visual guide, do you americans needs guides for everything?
I mean after credits in movies and everyting say�s, don�t try this at home and don�t do this and don�t do that, are these Visual guides gonna prevent anyone from suing the state or something? Why are they even coming up? in case of nuking stand behind this tree ---> I

uhmm, I�m confused, maybe you were Ironic Gort?
Now I�m gonna donwload your song Giant.

Matthew

Edit - hehe, I thought it was one of your Sogns Giant...hehe.
I guess it was one of those 2nd World War info for in case of a bomb?

[[Shizo]]

This is a government website? Are they trying to cover their asses in case something blows up and people start yelling "YOU DIDNT TELL ME WE CAN GET NUKED, I THOUGHT ONLY WE CAN NUKE OTHER COUNTRIES BUT OTHER COUNTRIES CANT NUKE US!!! WHAAAAAAA..."

If there is a significant radiation threat, health care authorities may or may not advise you to take potassium iodide. Potassium iodide is the same stuff added to your table salt to make it iodized. It may or may not protect your thyroid gland..

Yeah. And i may or may not laugh at this :0

[[Shizo]]

hhjg

[Gort]

Hamster - thanks for the Atomic Cafe ref - great stuff!

Matthew:
Ironic? No but perhaps more sardonic or even sarcastic. My initial introductory comment was meant to make fun of a set of seemingly simple approaches of safety towards an event such as a nuclear attack. Giant Hamster understood my gist, hence the reference from "The Atomic Cafe".

The graphics, in terms of graphic design and visual communication, do exhibit a degree of success in communicating a message, but do they really communicate the intensity of a nuclear attack?

No - I don't believe that they do; they exhibit the same simplistic representation that were presented in 1950s America or so I believe.

"Grab your torch and pick fork!"
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- Tom Carter

"You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf" - Jack Kornfield

[elam]

They should have done it Project Mayhem style.
Flaming skeletons and horrified looks on peoples faces before they die an extruciating death.

His name was George Bush.


More worries

[antx]

Your government is preparing you to be able to put a new law through which you at some point will regret having agreed to.




...BOOH!!!

[Impaler]

I don't know exactly what the reporter from wired was expecting. Machine-gun battles? Kung fu ninja assassins?

First of all, LANL is huge. It's roughly the size of Los Alamos, the adjoining town. The individual complexes are spread out over miles of empty space. Keeping the entire laboratory airtight would require a super-expensive police force, the likes of which would be doing NOTHING for lengths of time.

You see, LANL is in the middle of nowhere. The only major airport in this entire state is here in Albuquerque, and it's a two or three hour drive from here to Los Alamos, and a three hour drive back, across open desert, to a teeming metropolis.

Of course, that's not to say that LANL is without its problems. First of all, can anyone say Wen Ho Lee?

Roughly a year ago, hard drives with nuclear weapons information were "lost" from a lab, only to be discovered behind a COPYING MACHINE.

LANL also has grossly inadequate fire-fighting measures. In the last two summers, the lab was in immediate threat from forest fires, the first big enough to nearly destroy the entire town of Los Alamos, the second coming up to the Western perimeter fence. This winter has been very dry.
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QED, sort of.

[egerie]

Parodies (kinda) of www.ready.gov

[paws_of_gt]