Nuclear Monster

Category: war

  • Inside a Ukrainian Nuclear Missile Base

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    Drew Scanlon of Cloth Map, and my favorite podcast about speedy race cars, Shift+F1, has this great video from his recent tour of a decommissioned nuclear missile base in the Ukraine. In the video Scanlon actually gets to use the launch controls. Here’s the location on Google’s mapping service: And here is the museum’s English…

  • The Wartime Broadcasting System

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    Paul Reynolds, the British Broadcasting System’s former foreign and diplomatic correspondent found the BBC’s plans for continued broadcast during nuclear war or what the BBC politely described as a “nuclear exchange”: The War Book reveals a world of meticulous BBC planning. The Wartime Broadcasting System (WTBS) – referred to in the book as “Deferred Facilities”…

  • Shitface on Location

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    Undercover Interview- I Was a Sniper

  • Ring Turret

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  • Tuesday Wikipedia Trough: United States Military Chocolate

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    Military chocolate has been a part of standard United States military ration since the original Ration D or D ration bar of 1937. Today, military chocolate is issued to troops as part of basic field rations and sundry packs. Chocolate rations served two purposes: as a morale boost, and as a high-energy, pocket-sized emergency ration.…