I am old enough to remember reading this from cover to cover as a child.
I was just reading about Russia’s social media propaganda war so now I’m convinced that if Trump gets into power, then we’ll all get an updated edition for the new cold war/nuclear war. We might get some bonus iodine tablets as well.
Still relevant I’m afraid. One would have hoped that people in power would evolve into something more decent but here we are again.
I just listened to a podcast about that exact booklet! The Atomic Hobo podcast – it’s very good. She said the Irish booklet was far better and more useful than the English one.
So interesting, what a great find!
Did I imagine this or did the government send out iodine tablets to households in the 2000s in the event of a meltdown in Sellafield or wherever?
They’ll be sending them out again soon you’d imagine considering how idiotic western leadership has become..
i still remember that orange package of iodine tablets they sent to every home. freaked me the fuck out
Nuclear bomb manual – some assembly required.
Very interesting OP. Is there a date on this booklet? Assuming it’s 1962 or post that time?
God this is like my Nana’s house. Has cupboards filled with old stuff. Cleans them out and gives the stuff to me every now and then. 🤣
In reality, “pray that we’ve kept Ireland irrelevant enough that they forget to bomb us”
I remember that. Every house got them in the sixties. If I remember rightly, the advice in the case of a nuclear war was to hide under the stairs… We may laugh, but the threat was very real back then. We were THAT close to a nuclear was in the Bay of Pigs crisis in 63
I live in New York and two buildings down the street for me there’s still a big sign indicating a fallout shelter. Can’t imagine it would have done much.
For real, would you be interested in selling this?
Very relevant OP as US did scenario planning for Russian nuclear attack in Ukraine at end of 2022.
A European wide exchange would see Russian strikes on Faslane in Scotland and probably Shannon and Knock airports to deny them to US for staging purposes. Our good neighbor the British would consider tactical nuclear strikes off the Irish west coast to hit Russian missile subs off our continental shelf before they could launch at the UK. Interception of Russian missiles launched is likely by UK over Ireland.
Kind of expected it to be titled “What to do when the Brits really fuck up”
It’ll be a bad day for the town!
r/mildlyinteresting
That books useless unless you have a school desk in your house to hide under.
SOUND BOOTS
Where’s the other pages let’s see please OP
Take pictures of all the inside and post them for us to read. The way things are in the world at the moment we might need such advice. And let’s face it we’d probably be better off getting advice from a government 50 years ago than waiting for advice from the current lot as there’s a serious bang of Thanos about Eamonn Ryan when he is coming up with solutions to climate change.
“When the wind blows” vibes
Is the entire document bilingual, or just the cover?
Just finished the queen of dirt island by Donal Ryan and this booker is mentioned
I remember finding a copy or that or something similar at home as a kid, there was some fantastic practical advice on things like properly labeling your dead relatives that you stack outside under a lean to, lying with you feed facing towards the explosion and something about painting your windows?
One of the more interesting kids books of the time!
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I am old enough to remember reading this from cover to cover as a child.
I was just reading about Russia’s social media propaganda war so now I’m convinced that if Trump gets into power, then we’ll all get an updated edition for the new cold war/nuclear war. We might get some bonus iodine tablets as well.
Still relevant I’m afraid. One would have hoped that people in power would evolve into something more decent but here we are again.
I just listened to a podcast about that exact booklet! The Atomic Hobo podcast – it’s very good. She said the Irish booklet was far better and more useful than the English one.
So interesting, what a great find!
Did I imagine this or did the government send out iodine tablets to households in the 2000s in the event of a meltdown in Sellafield or wherever?
They’ll be sending them out again soon you’d imagine considering how idiotic western leadership has become..
i still remember that orange package of iodine tablets they sent to every home. freaked me the fuck out
Nuclear bomb manual – some assembly required.
Very interesting OP. Is there a date on this booklet? Assuming it’s 1962 or post that time?
God this is like my Nana’s house. Has cupboards filled with old stuff. Cleans them out and gives the stuff to me every now and then. 🤣
In reality, “pray that we’ve kept Ireland irrelevant enough that they forget to bomb us”
I remember that. Every house got them in the sixties. If I remember rightly, the advice in the case of a nuclear war was to hide under the stairs… We may laugh, but the threat was very real back then. We were THAT close to a nuclear was in the Bay of Pigs crisis in 63
I live in New York and two buildings down the street for me there’s still a big sign indicating a fallout shelter. Can’t imagine it would have done much.
For real, would you be interested in selling this?
Very relevant OP as US did scenario planning for Russian nuclear attack in Ukraine at end of 2022.
A European wide exchange would see Russian strikes on Faslane in Scotland and probably Shannon and Knock airports to deny them to US for staging purposes. Our good neighbor the British would consider tactical nuclear strikes off the Irish west coast to hit Russian missile subs off our continental shelf before they could launch at the UK. Interception of Russian missiles launched is likely by UK over Ireland.
Kind of expected it to be titled “What to do when the Brits really fuck up”
It’ll be a bad day for the town!
r/mildlyinteresting
That books useless unless you have a school desk in your house to hide under.
SOUND BOOTS
Where’s the other pages let’s see please OP
Take pictures of all the inside and post them for us to read. The way things are in the world at the moment we might need such advice. And let’s face it we’d probably be better off getting advice from a government 50 years ago than waiting for advice from the current lot as there’s a serious bang of Thanos about Eamonn Ryan when he is coming up with solutions to climate change.
“When the wind blows” vibes
Is the entire document bilingual, or just the cover?
Just finished the queen of dirt island by Donal Ryan and this booker is mentioned
I remember finding a copy or that or something similar at home as a kid, there was some fantastic practical advice on things like properly labeling your dead relatives that you stack outside under a lean to, lying with you feed facing towards the explosion and something about painting your windows?
One of the more interesting kids books of the time!
Cool find, it just might come in handy one day.
A real blast from the past there.
Buen descubrimiento.