If the UK had ever been nuked...
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I watched an episode of 'Ricks Restorations' recently.
They restore an old cold-war Nuclear attack siren back to fully working order, to be put up as an exhibit outside the Clark County Museum.
When they turn the thing on, and it starts to rotate and wail louder and louder, it sent chills down my spine - brrrrr! I sat there imagining what it would be like to hear it for real. Doesn't bear thinking about.
According to the curator, a lot of these sirens were mounted on top of schools!
Clip here (switch-on is at about 12 minutes in)
I defy you to listen to this, and not be scared too!
They restore an old cold-war Nuclear attack siren back to fully working order, to be put up as an exhibit outside the Clark County Museum.
When they turn the thing on, and it starts to rotate and wail louder and louder, it sent chills down my spine - brrrrr! I sat there imagining what it would be like to hear it for real. Doesn't bear thinking about.
According to the curator, a lot of these sirens were mounted on top of schools!
Clip here (switch-on is at about 12 minutes in)
I defy you to listen to this, and not be scared too!
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
I watched an episode of 'Ricks Restorations' recently.
They restore an old cold-war Nuclear attack siren back to fully working order, to be put up as an exhibit outside the Clark County Museum.
When they turn the thing on, and it starts to rotate and wail louder and louder, it sent chills down my spine - brrrrr! I sat there imagining what it would be like to hear it for real. Doesn't bear thinking about.
According to the curator, a lot of these sirens were mounted on top of schools!
Clip here (switch-on is at about 12 minutes in)
I defy you to listen to this, and not be scared too!
Fist thought in my head as 'When two tribes go to war' dunno what that says about me? They restore an old cold-war Nuclear attack siren back to fully working order, to be put up as an exhibit outside the Clark County Museum.
When they turn the thing on, and it starts to rotate and wail louder and louder, it sent chills down my spine - brrrrr! I sat there imagining what it would be like to hear it for real. Doesn't bear thinking about.
According to the curator, a lot of these sirens were mounted on top of schools!
Clip here (switch-on is at about 12 minutes in)
I defy you to listen to this, and not be scared too!
Is it just me, when the limp wristed whiners bleat on about living in fear of "terrorists" do you think "Are you stting me, we watched Threads/Day After in junior school, and lived under the real threat of either being vaporised in nuclear Armageddon or blown to bits by irate irishmen on a constant basis, so shut the fk up!" WHat a change in 30 years ey, I never thought walking through the rubble in Warrington when the IRA bombed it that I would be here now. Kids today have no idea!
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
According to the curator, a lot of these sirens were mounted on top of schools!
we had a weird siren thing on top of my school, pretty much around 1983 or so. It wasn't like that, but I always wondered what it was. I'm sure it was early warning now that you mention it.Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
I watched an episode of 'Ricks Restorations' recently.
They restore an old cold-war Nuclear attack siren back to fully working order, to be put up as an exhibit outside the Clark County Museum.
When they turn the thing on, and it starts to rotate and wail louder and louder, it sent chills down my spine - brrrrr! I sat there imagining what it would be like to hear it for real. Doesn't bear thinking about.
According to the curator, a lot of these sirens were mounted on top of schools!
Clip here (switch-on is at about 12 minutes in)
I defy you to listen to this, and not be scared too!
How about this one - a hemi V8 powered air-raid siren: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqg4a-Ols8They restore an old cold-war Nuclear attack siren back to fully working order, to be put up as an exhibit outside the Clark County Museum.
When they turn the thing on, and it starts to rotate and wail louder and louder, it sent chills down my spine - brrrrr! I sat there imagining what it would be like to hear it for real. Doesn't bear thinking about.
According to the curator, a lot of these sirens were mounted on top of schools!
Clip here (switch-on is at about 12 minutes in)
I defy you to listen to this, and not be scared too!
Snowboy said:
I grew up not far from GCHQ.
I remember at school we had an exercise in Geography.
We were all given a map of the surrounding 20 miles or so.
We then had a pair of compasses and a ruler and had to draw concentric circles emanating from GCHQ showing the % chance of death.
Like, within 3 miles it’s 100% death, between 3 and 6 miles it’s 80% death, etc.
We then had to find our own house and the school and work out our % chance of getting killed at home or at school.
You don’t get school lessons like that these days (probably)
3 miles, must have been a small one then!I remember at school we had an exercise in Geography.
We were all given a map of the surrounding 20 miles or so.
We then had a pair of compasses and a ruler and had to draw concentric circles emanating from GCHQ showing the % chance of death.
Like, within 3 miles it’s 100% death, between 3 and 6 miles it’s 80% death, etc.
We then had to find our own house and the school and work out our % chance of getting killed at home or at school.
You don’t get school lessons like that these days (probably)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dDTnszCQC0&fea...
Edited by Mojocvh on Monday 23 July 23:22
A random find whilst looking at the vids posted here, but as the Yanks had all those missile silos hidden in mock-farmhouses etc, imagine being near one and suddenly seeing this emerge http://youtu.be/eUGxlQo8g8Y
Due to the time it takes the sound to reach the camera, it looks a bit spooky with that giant rocket coming out of the ground in total silence briefly.
Due to the time it takes the sound to reach the camera, it looks a bit spooky with that giant rocket coming out of the ground in total silence briefly.
Late '90/early '91 I was working in Russia, looking at a Bakery with a view to a joint venture, and did a tour of the bakery.
The tour finished with the workers 'tea room', which was a fully fitted out NBC bunker.
The only thing I could think was 'what strategic value was a bakery', and 'If I had seen this a couple of years earlier, I wouldn't be leaving Russia!'
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The tour finished with the workers 'tea room', which was a fully fitted out NBC bunker.
The only thing I could think was 'what strategic value was a bakery', and 'If I had seen this a couple of years earlier, I wouldn't be leaving Russia!'
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Interesting, when I had to do some searches for a site in Brighton, this was part of the package.
I loved it so much I printed it out for the wall. It has all the road names translated into cyrillic script (but phonetically identical) and strategic sites marked out such as the Police Station, train station and chemical plants (I dread to think). They even have loading figures on bridges so they would know which streets they could roll the T-72s up from the landing craft. From here they would have proceeded all the way up the A23 to London. Terrifying stuff, be great if someone did an alternate reality film about a Soviet invasion during the 80s. The reality wouldn't be quite so great, obviously.
More info here, well worth a read:
http://www.envirocheck.co.uk/envirocheck/content.j...
I loved it so much I printed it out for the wall. It has all the road names translated into cyrillic script (but phonetically identical) and strategic sites marked out such as the Police Station, train station and chemical plants (I dread to think). They even have loading figures on bridges so they would know which streets they could roll the T-72s up from the landing craft. From here they would have proceeded all the way up the A23 to London. Terrifying stuff, be great if someone did an alternate reality film about a Soviet invasion during the 80s. The reality wouldn't be quite so great, obviously.
More info here, well worth a read:
http://www.envirocheck.co.uk/envirocheck/content.j...
yea just think if we'd been invaded by the russkis!! I mean, lots of shaved-headed, tattooed meatheads beating people up, violence on the streets, corrupt companies manipulating the nation from behind the scenes, everyone getting so pissed they can't stand, horrible modified range rovers and tasteless displays of wealth...........oh
same as UK except they have gorgeous women. Maybe the reality wouldn't be so bad?
same as UK except they have gorgeous women. Maybe the reality wouldn't be so bad?
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