I just found this great comic: Atomic War

[the_tyrant]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/AtomicWar0101.jpg/426px-AtomicWar0101.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AtomicWar0101.jpg

I'm not a comic book reader, but this comic is actually quite interesting
it seems like back than they can stick "atomic" on anything
atomic bullets, atomic hand grenades, etc

[Torplexed]

I just want the Trace-O-Matic on page two. :rotfl2:10 day free trial! Woot! Wonder if they send the model in the one-piece bathing suit as well? :D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/AtomicWar0202.jpg/389px-AtomicWar0202.jpg

[Gargamel]

bathing suit is an extra option.

[Fish In The Water]

bathing suit is an extra option.

Maybe he'll just forget to draw the suit... ;)

[Betonov]

http://comicbookcatacombs.blogspot.com/2009/03/sneak-attack-from-atomic-war-1-ace.html

Here's the entire comic, one issue, others are in links to the left.

This comics are worse than Michael Bay movies :DL

[Torplexed]

http://comicbookcatacombs.blogspot.com/2009/03/sneak-attack-from-atomic-war-1-ace.html

Here's the entire comic, one issue, others are in links to the left.

This comics are worse than Michael Bay movies :DL

Yeah, it is kinda funny how the header says "Only a Strong America can stop Atomic War", while there is rampant nuking in every issue. Maybe that partly explains why Ace Comics went outta business in 1956.:rotfl2:

[Penguin]

Great find! I love those 50s comics! Especially the horror comics from this decade were never seconded. They somehow have such a unique spirit, a strange mixture of naive belief in technological advances and disappointment in humanity, caused by the slaughter a decade before.

If you don't know it, check out the film "The Atomic Cafe" - it catches a little of this athmosphere, a kind of dramedy documentation.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/The-atomic-cafe-movie-Poster.jpg

Also thanks to Betonov for the links to the other stories! :salute:
Gonna abuse my company's printer a little today!

[Betonov]

But there's all this talk about reds in the comics, but they always show russians. Not one redhaired woman

[Penguin]

But there's all this talk about reds in the comics, but they always show russians. Not one redhaired woman

I think you might be a little disappointed when you watch Red Dawn... :D

However the great tubes of the interweb have a list of redhead comics: http://www.raising-redheads.com/comic-strips.html :up:
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/9131/brendastarrstamp.jpg

[Catfish]

Imagine they test the neutron bomb, and invited you to the event.
"Sit back and enjoy the show".

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y174/penaeus/marshallislandsfallout.jpg

And when you hear that US prisoners and US military personnell were injected plutonium just to see what happens ... you're taking it all too hard ...

[Onkel Neal]

Miracle Mile. Rent it, and be sure not to read reviews or spoilers. Great film!

[nikimcbee]

Speaking of comics, I've still got all of my "fightin' navy" comics.:woot:

[Growler]

Miracle Mile. Rent it, and be sure not to read reviews or spoilers. Great film!

Fantastic film. Well worth the watch.

[Oberon]

Threads still hits hard for me. Particularly the bomb scene. The sheer grittiness of it, no flashing out skeletons.

[Takeda Shingen]

Obligatory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSK-1guFLDk

And Threads is something else. For me, it is the callous reaction of Jane to her mother's death that I find haunting.

[Growler]

Threads still hits hard for me. Particularly the bomb scene. The sheer grittiness of it, no flashing out skeletons.

I first saw Threads when I was maybe 14(?) during the height of the Reagan 80's, and unlike The Day After, Threads had me spellbound, stunned, and somewhat terrified. Then I realized, living as close as I did to the Philadelphia Naval Yard, that if the balloon went up, I was going to be that much more ash and grit in the cloud, and I stopped caring.

[Oberon]

I think that's how a lot of people got through it. Back in the 1980s where I lived would have been safe enough, but probably would have got the fallout from London going up. I don't think there was anything major in terms of C&C around West Malling. Biggin Hill wasn't active as a proper base, and there's no major army bases. Channel ports could have attracted attention, but they would have been far enough away from me.
So I probably would have got a good view of the mushroom clouds from London but little else.

Where I live now though is within sixteen to twenty miles of a target of one of Russias ICBMs, and that's Bentwaters. Struck off the list now since it's decommed but when I moved up here in '92 it was still operational and still a target. Of course, if the balloon had gone up all the A-10s from Bentwaters would have been forward based in Germany so quite what the point of dropping a nuke on Bentwaters would have been I do not know...but apparently it was a target, as was Lakenheath and Mildenhall (probably still are). I guess when you've got enough nukes to go around you spread the love. :haha:

EDIT: Duh! I forgot about the probable nukes which were stored at Bentwaters. I know for cert they had nukes there during the F-86 era, they had Thuds and Voodoos on QRA duty. However I strongly doubt the nukes would have been there during the A-10 era. The only other attack aircraft at Bentwaters during the last years was the F-16 and I don't think that carries nukes does it? They probably just forgot to take it off the target list or the list itself was an old one which the newspapers got a hold of.

[TLAM Strike]

The only other attack aircraft at Bentwaters during the last years was the F-16 and I don't think that carries nukes does it? The F-16 C/D could carry B-61 freefall nuclear bombs. ;)

[Oberon]

The F-16 C/D could carry B-61 freefall nuclear bombs. ;)

Well that answers that then. :yep:

I know a lot of people rumour that there were nukes at Bentwaters during the Rendlesham Incident of 1980. I think they would have had them on the F-4s at that point. So it wouldn't surprise me if they kept some B-61s there just in case things went south in West Germany. Interesting airfield though, no protection against a nuclear attack at all, it has chemical and biological protection with a nice big door and chemical showers and all that...but the command center is above ground. :dead:

[Growler]

The F-16 C/D could carry B-61 freefall nuclear bombs. ;)

There's your answer, Obi. Feel better now?:yeah:

[Oberon]

There's your answer, Obi. Feel better now?:yeah:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/cutandpaste/images/80s/kennard/kennard7.jpg

Much better thanks. :yeah::03:

[Growler]

Much better thanks. :yeah::03:

Heh... My high school sat atop one of the larger hills around, and from it, you could see the City of Philadelphia via an entirely unobstructed line of sight; I watched One Liberty Place being constructed from the windows of that school.

I remember sitting in Chemistry class one day in 86, looking out at the city, and thinking that I'd be blinded by the flash, and with nothing between the city and where I sat, the shockwave'd probably do us all pretty easily. Happy thoughts.

[Oberon]

I'd be blinded by the flash, and with nothing between the city and where I sat, the shockwave'd probably do us all pretty easily. Happy thoughts.

You'd be one of the lucky ones then. :yep:

[Torplexed]

Miracle Mile. Rent it, and be sure not to read reviews or spoilers. Great film!

Yeah, I never answered a solitary ringing payphone after that movie. :D

[TLAM Strike]

Interesting airfield though, no protection against a nuclear attack at all, it has chemical and biological protection with a nice big door and chemical showers and all that...but the command center is above ground. :dead:
I don't know anything about the Airbase in question but, there is no real way to fortify an airbase against nuclear attack. A nuke strike against an airbase will be a nasty surface detonation to crater the runways so any aircraft that survive in hardened shelters will be basically useless (unless they are VTOL or Zero Length JATOs) in such a case they might as well have all the command centers off site to give Ivan more targets to bomb.

[the_tyrant]

Miracle Mile. Rent it, and be sure not to read reviews or spoilers. Great film!

Thank you:salute:
on my to-do list now

[Growler]

Yeah, I never answered a solitary ringing payphone after that movie. :D

God, ain't that the truth!