Re: (erielack) AN EDUCATION PAMPHLET FOR LACKAWANNA EMPLOYEES ON THE ATOMIC B...

[eljefe3126_@_netscape.net]

All, 
 
Actually, the information in this pamphlet is extremely accurate.  Just about every single suggestion given would save lives and reduce damage in the event of a nuclear attack.  The only information in it that is dated is the bit about the 4,200 foot deadly radius and half-mile range of total destruction.  However, in December of 1950, the hydrogen bomb had not yet been invented, and the information in the pamphlet was true for just about every weapon that had been fielded to that point.
 
As it was addressed to railroad employees, I'm surprised that more space wasn't given to the effects of atomic weapons on rolling stock and track structures.  Rolling stock oriented end-on to the blast weathers the effects as well as anything short of a concrete bunker.  But even rolling stock oriented side-on to the blast is surprisingly resistant.
 
And yes, radiation does pass through dirt or walls.  However, it is attenuated by its passage, to the point where a few feet of earth can mean the difference between life and death.
 
I miss the EL (list content).  But I don't miss the Cold War.
 
Jeff Larson
ELHS #2683
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