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Jim Bloggs and his wife Hilda are an aging couple, living in an isolated cottage in rural Sussex, in southeast England.Jim frequently travels to the local town to read newspapers and keep abreast of the deteriorating international situation regarding the Soviet–Afghan War, which is threatening to escalate into an all-out nuclear conflict between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
When the Wind Blows is a 1982 graphic novel, created by British artist Raymond Briggs, commonly known for its critiques against government issued preparations for nuclear war. Utilizing a cartoonish design, this graphic novel follows a retired couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs, and their experience of a nuclear attack on Britain launched by the ...
The video depicts various countries reacting to nuclear threats, including the United States, France, United Kingdom, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and Australia. Ultimately, the entire world is nuked and subsequently destroyed by a nuclear winter. The video also features a caricature of then-US President George W. Bush. [5]
Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merril (1950) – a novel about a traditional housewife's ordeals in the aftermath of nuclear attack; The Shannara Series, by Terry Brooks; The Silo Series by Hugh Howey (2011) – A nuclear exchange is used to cover up a nano-bot attack. Single Combat by Dean Ing (second in the Ted Quantril trilogy)
Representatives of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) offers to pay ¥30,000 and arrange for Natsue's cremation so the commission can look for a cure for radiation sickness, but Gen angrily sends them away. Natsue's ashes are buried in January, in an urn Gen made.
The Cold War ended in 1991, but the looming threat of nuclear attack lives on with more than 14,900 nuclear weapons wielded by nine nations.. A terrorist-caused nuclear detonation is one of 15 ...
After nuclear weapons were developed, with Trinity having been the first nuclear weapon to be developed through the Manhattan Project during World War II, the danger they posed soon became clear. The United States held a nuclear monopoly from the end of World War II until 1949, when the Soviets detonated their first nuclear device. [citation ...
To elucidate the effects on lying flat on the ground in attenuating a weapons blast, Miyoko Matsubara, one of the Hiroshima maidens, when recounting the bombing in an interview in 1999, said that she was outdoors and less than 1 mile from the hypocenter of the Little Boy bomb. Upon observing the nuclear weapons silent flash she quickly lay flat ...