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Showing posts with label nuclear war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuclear war. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Sanctions 'are inevitable' [maybe]

Our attention-eager friends on the Religious Right surely did not anticipate seeing Iran quickly give ground in the face of "weak" President Barak Obama by offering to have its nuclear experts meet with U.S. scientists.

Although they must have known of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's statement last week, echoed today, that "Sanctions are seldom productive but they are sometimes inevitable." If they knew, you see, our friends were demanding what they had good reason to suspect was in fact inevitable. That's, well, an easy victory.

As real events proceed apace, however, their hyperventilating open letter begins to look a bit, er, undignified.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Nostalgia: Our doughty “duck and cover” turtle (1950)

"Duck and Cover" survival of a nuclear attack was the improbable goal of this sweet cinema and many others. It was shown in public school classrooms in the sweeter, kinder, gentler, stress-free 1950s when atomic annihilation was offered as a constant companion: