Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for April 28, 2018

Hold the Rice Krispies! That Snap, Crackle, POP! could do Pop in…

Look on the bright side. If their aim is good enough, and any sizeable projectile fired from the other side of the world — explosive or not — lands within a hundred yards of you, you’ll never know what hit you.

Maybe you shouldn’t have your hair in the style of a mushroom cloud, then?

The good thing is, it’ll be over in a flash.

I remember seeing the TV movie “The Day After” with my (then boyfriend, now) husband & his father. After the movie his father showed us a lot of information on rockets, bombs and such. He literally was a rocket scientist; he was instrumental behind the Hawk and Patriot missiles. (Side note: the very end of the movie disturbed me…not because of the storyline, but because of Jason Robards crisp, clean, pressed white shirt!)

Ahhhh yes. Growing up during the latter years of the Cold War.

Up in the Keweenaw Peninsula of MI you could look up and see a B-52 flying overhead several times every day – they were very small up in the sky but you could still hear them. They were flying out of K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in Marquette. They flew a route that took them over the Arctic Circle just to the edge of Soviet Airspace – to be in position to quickly deliver their payloads. There were always bombers in the air somewhere between those two points – some coming, some going.

So I grew up in the North Woods but with nuclear weapons literally straight overhead every day. It tends to make you aware of your own mortality at a relatively young age.

So Binkley and I had an understanding.

You did that at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Tsar Bomba was detonated in 1961, it was the only 50 megatonner built.

A “winnable” nuclear war. With enough shovels. Ketchup is a vegetable. Ollie mania. Those were the days. So are these.

I currently live somewhere unlikely to be hit directly, but most of my adult life has been spent on or near military installations… so I just assumed it would end in a flash. Especially when I was stationed at the Pentagon. There is a snack bar in the middle of the courtyard that is the likely ground zero for, at least, one nuke. I always thought we should paint a target on the roof of that building, just to make it obvious for the oblivious.

“When the button is pushed, there’ll be no running away. There’ll be no one to save with the world in a grave”

“Kablooey” kinda says it all, doesn’t it?

Mr Kruschev said he would bury you. I don’t subscribe to this point of view. It’d be such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children too. – Sting

We will all go simultaneous when the world becomes unranous, yes we all will go together when we go…