Art Petersn
02-18-03, 08:35 PM
part 2
Nuclear bombs. These are the only weapons of mass destruction on earth. The
effects of a nuclear bomb are heat, blast, EMP, and radiation. If you
see a bright flash of light like the sun, where the sun isn't, fall to the
ground! The heat will be over in a second. Then there will be two
blast waves, one out going, and one on the way back. Don't stand up to see
what happened after the first wave; anything that's going to happen will have
happened in two full minutes. These will be low yield devices and will not
level whole cities. If you live through the heat, blast, and initial burst
of radiation, you'll probably live for a very, very long time. Radiation
will not create fifty foot tall women, or giant ants and grasshoppers the
size of tanks. These will be, at the most, one kiloton bombs; that's the
equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Here's the real deal, flying debris and
radiation will kill a lot of exposed (not all!) people within a half mile of the blast.
Under perfect conditions, this is about a half mile circle of death and
destruction, but when it's done, it's done. EMP stands for Electro Magnetic
Pulse and it will fry every electronic device for a good distance, it's
impossible to say what and how far but probably not over a couple of miles
from ground zero is a good guess. Cars, cell phones, computers, ATMs, you
name it, all will be out of order.
There are lots of kinds of radiation. You only need to worry about three,
the others you have lived with for years. You need to worry about "ionizing
radiation," little sub atomic particles that go whizzing along at the speed
of light. They hit individual cells in your body, kill the nucleus and keep
on going. That's how you get radiation poisoning -- you have so many dead
cells in your body that the decaying cells poison you. It's the same as
people getting radiation treatments for cancer, only a bigger area gets
radiated. The good news is you don't have to just sit there and take it,
and there's lots you can do rather than panic. First; your skin will stop
alpha particles, a page of a news paper or your clothing will stop beta particles.
You just gotta try and avoid inhaling dust that's contaminated withatoms
that are emitting these things and you'll be generally safe from them.
Gamma rays are particles that travel like rays (quantum physics makes my
brain hurt), and they create the same damage as alpha and beta particles,
only they keep going and kill lots of cells as they go all the way through
your body. It takes a lot to stop these things, lots of dense material. On
the other hand, it takes a lot of this to kill you.
Your defense is, as always, to not panic. Basic hygiene and normal
preparation are your friends. All canned or frozen food are safe to eat.
The radiation poisoning will not affect plants, so fruits and vegetables
are OK if there's no dust on 'em (rinse 'em off if there is). If you don't
have running water and you need to collect rain water or use water from
wherever, just let it sit for thirty minutes and skim off the water gently
from the top. The dust with the bad stuff in it will settle and the
remaining water can be used for the toilet, which will still work if you
have a bucket of water to pour in the tank.
Finally there's biological warfare. There's not much to cover here.
Basic personal hygiene and sanitation will take you further than a million
doctors. Wash your hands often, don't share drinks, food, sloppy kisses,
etc., ... with strangers. Keep your garbage can with a tight lid on it,
don't have standing water (like old buckets, ditches, or kiddy pools)
laying around to allow mosquitoes breeding room. This stuff is carried by
vectors, that is, bugs, rodents, and contaminated material. If biological
warfare is so easy as the TV makes it sound, why has Saddam Hussein
spent twenty years, millions, and millions of dollars trying to get it right? If
you're clean of person and home, you eat well and are active, you're gonna live.
Overall preparation for any terrorist attack is the same as you'd take for
a big storm. If you want a gas mask, fine, go get one. I know this stuff>
and I'm not getting one and I told my Mom not to bother with one either
(how's that for confidence?). We have a week's worth of cash, several days
worth of canned goods and plenty of soap and water. We don't leave stuff
out to attract bugs or rodents so we don't have them.
These people can't conceive a nation this big with this much resources.
These weapons are made to cause panic, terror, and to demoralize. If we
don't run around like sheep, they won't use this stuff after they find out
it's no fun. The government is going nuts over this stuff because they have
to protect every inch of America. You've only gotta protect yourself, and
by doing that, you help the country. Finally, there are millions of caveats
to everything I wrote here and you can think up specific scenarios where my
advice isn't the best.
This letter is supposed to help the greatest number of people under the
greatest number of situations. If you don't like my work, don't nit pick,
just sit down and explain chemical, nuclear, and biological warfare in a
document around three pages long yourself.
This is how we, the people of the United States, can rob these people of
their most desired goal, your terror.
SFC Red Thomas (Ret), Armor Master Gunner, Mesa, AZ
Unlimited reproduction and distribution is authorized.
Just give me credit for my work, and, keep in context.
Please feel free to send this page to your friends!
Nuclear bombs. These are the only weapons of mass destruction on earth. The
effects of a nuclear bomb are heat, blast, EMP, and radiation. If you
see a bright flash of light like the sun, where the sun isn't, fall to the
ground! The heat will be over in a second. Then there will be two
blast waves, one out going, and one on the way back. Don't stand up to see
what happened after the first wave; anything that's going to happen will have
happened in two full minutes. These will be low yield devices and will not
level whole cities. If you live through the heat, blast, and initial burst
of radiation, you'll probably live for a very, very long time. Radiation
will not create fifty foot tall women, or giant ants and grasshoppers the
size of tanks. These will be, at the most, one kiloton bombs; that's the
equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Here's the real deal, flying debris and
radiation will kill a lot of exposed (not all!) people within a half mile of the blast.
Under perfect conditions, this is about a half mile circle of death and
destruction, but when it's done, it's done. EMP stands for Electro Magnetic
Pulse and it will fry every electronic device for a good distance, it's
impossible to say what and how far but probably not over a couple of miles
from ground zero is a good guess. Cars, cell phones, computers, ATMs, you
name it, all will be out of order.
There are lots of kinds of radiation. You only need to worry about three,
the others you have lived with for years. You need to worry about "ionizing
radiation," little sub atomic particles that go whizzing along at the speed
of light. They hit individual cells in your body, kill the nucleus and keep
on going. That's how you get radiation poisoning -- you have so many dead
cells in your body that the decaying cells poison you. It's the same as
people getting radiation treatments for cancer, only a bigger area gets
radiated. The good news is you don't have to just sit there and take it,
and there's lots you can do rather than panic. First; your skin will stop
alpha particles, a page of a news paper or your clothing will stop beta particles.
You just gotta try and avoid inhaling dust that's contaminated withatoms
that are emitting these things and you'll be generally safe from them.
Gamma rays are particles that travel like rays (quantum physics makes my
brain hurt), and they create the same damage as alpha and beta particles,
only they keep going and kill lots of cells as they go all the way through
your body. It takes a lot to stop these things, lots of dense material. On
the other hand, it takes a lot of this to kill you.
Your defense is, as always, to not panic. Basic hygiene and normal
preparation are your friends. All canned or frozen food are safe to eat.
The radiation poisoning will not affect plants, so fruits and vegetables
are OK if there's no dust on 'em (rinse 'em off if there is). If you don't
have running water and you need to collect rain water or use water from
wherever, just let it sit for thirty minutes and skim off the water gently
from the top. The dust with the bad stuff in it will settle and the
remaining water can be used for the toilet, which will still work if you
have a bucket of water to pour in the tank.
Finally there's biological warfare. There's not much to cover here.
Basic personal hygiene and sanitation will take you further than a million
doctors. Wash your hands often, don't share drinks, food, sloppy kisses,
etc., ... with strangers. Keep your garbage can with a tight lid on it,
don't have standing water (like old buckets, ditches, or kiddy pools)
laying around to allow mosquitoes breeding room. This stuff is carried by
vectors, that is, bugs, rodents, and contaminated material. If biological
warfare is so easy as the TV makes it sound, why has Saddam Hussein
spent twenty years, millions, and millions of dollars trying to get it right? If
you're clean of person and home, you eat well and are active, you're gonna live.
Overall preparation for any terrorist attack is the same as you'd take for
a big storm. If you want a gas mask, fine, go get one. I know this stuff>
and I'm not getting one and I told my Mom not to bother with one either
(how's that for confidence?). We have a week's worth of cash, several days
worth of canned goods and plenty of soap and water. We don't leave stuff
out to attract bugs or rodents so we don't have them.
These people can't conceive a nation this big with this much resources.
These weapons are made to cause panic, terror, and to demoralize. If we
don't run around like sheep, they won't use this stuff after they find out
it's no fun. The government is going nuts over this stuff because they have
to protect every inch of America. You've only gotta protect yourself, and
by doing that, you help the country. Finally, there are millions of caveats
to everything I wrote here and you can think up specific scenarios where my
advice isn't the best.
This letter is supposed to help the greatest number of people under the
greatest number of situations. If you don't like my work, don't nit pick,
just sit down and explain chemical, nuclear, and biological warfare in a
document around three pages long yourself.
This is how we, the people of the United States, can rob these people of
their most desired goal, your terror.
SFC Red Thomas (Ret), Armor Master Gunner, Mesa, AZ
Unlimited reproduction and distribution is authorized.
Just give me credit for my work, and, keep in context.
Please feel free to send this page to your friends!