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People of Earth, Evacuate Your Cities
Lapham’s Quarterly ran the English translation of the leaflets dropped on Japan along with the atomic bomb this week. While this isn’t strictly energy related, it’s too bizarre a document not to blog about.
The tone is direct, gentlemanly. It begins: To the Japanese People. It ends: EVACUATE YOUR CITIES. In between, the language is firm [...]
When The Whole World Needs To Be Quarantined: Fantasy Architecture and Nuclear War
In poking around the Atomic Energy Commission’s technical reports archive, you come across some stupendous documents about how the world was going to deal with nuclear war. The marriage of the bureaucratic of the apocalyptic produces deranged offspring with very detailed models.
One 1960 Atomic Energy Commission report on a prospective 100-person post-apocalyptic “Group Shelter” is [...]
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