When I was a kid, I remember this movie or short film featuring puppets. There was a guy and his wife and as they were going to sleep the bombers came overhead and dropped a nuke. Everything was destroyed, and I cant remember but it seems to me they survived the blast. There was another one I saw which was a animated cartoon and it had folks with radiation sickness in it.

I was a kid during the 80's and while it wasn't hysteria or even really talked about (to children anyways) the thought terrified me and still does. I remember when I was a small child a thunderstorm set off the Air Raid Sirens and I was scared shytless. I cant remember being more scared than that.

This may have been mentioned (i haven't read all the posts) but in the UK we had a Govt. booklet called protect and survive that showed you how to build a fallout shelter on the cheap. It includes the fantastic line;

On hearing the ALL-CLEAR
This means there is no longer an immediate danger from air attack and fall-out and you may resume normal activities.

Normal activities? Such as picking through the rubble?

There's a transcript here. http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?showtopic=0

I was eight at the time of 9/11. I remember all the paranoia in the schools, but as we were in elementary school, the teachers wouldn't tell us anything, so we were really confused as to why our peers were spontaneously being taken home early one at a time.

When I was one out of about 10 kids left, we got to help the teacher arrange the classroom and then we watched a movie. Good fun.

...then I got home and heard the news for real, not-so-good fun.

Maybe this is getting off-topic, but I was 9 during 9/11, and I saw the 2nd plane hit on television, and I went to school anyway... don't remember much else but a dumb conversation I had with another 9 year old where we both said "they'll be talking about this for weeks!"

Anyway, this topic is news to me, and makes FO3 all the more realistic, thanks for the post!

I live in Missouri... where there are lots of tornadoes...... so the sirens go off all the time... it was weird when i first moved there.

Christ, stop making me feel old, I was in college when it happened. I had just sat down for an American History class, when the professor walks in, and tells us that a plane has just flown into the side of the world trade center. TVs were scrounged from every media room in the building and lined up in the hallways turned to various news stations, nobody was in class, we just watched in horror from the hallways. When I got home I remember trying to beat the crap out of a tree near the house just to calm down.

I remember I was in Algebra in high school... all of a sudden all the tv's turned on and showed this stuff. At first I thought it was some old action movie and the tv's turned on by accident.... then I found out I was wrong. It was pretty crappy.


also... http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1864272,00.html

I saw that in the Fallout 3 General Discussions forum and thought it would fit in here nicely.

lol

i just found a bunch of soviet propaganda posters against america. it was pretty interesting seeing all of this.


http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=312

here an old guide book I found.

http://www.nukepills.com/docs/nuclear_war_survival_skills.pdf

here in the Philippines we have the fairly new Tsunami warning sirens and evacuation routes.

of topic but in the pictures of bomb shelters from the 50's and 60's the bomb shelters looked like reinforced concreat under about a foot of dirt. wouldnt a nuke (even one very far away) totaly destroy that

Just a month before my graduation this past June, there was a bomb threat in my school. We had the Entire morning off up until 12pm. Apparently someone left a metal box in the middle of the lunch area with some wires hanging out and an clock ticking on the inside. It also had stink bombs which let out a chemical-like smell. I thought it was kind of dumb for them to tell us to stay in our classrooms while there is supposedly a bomb on campus. I would've sent everyone home!

hmm, they remind me of old Nazi propaganda posters.

Epic Thread

:) yup...

When I was in first and second grade we had monthly nuke drills, get under your desk and turn your head away from the windows to save your eyes from the shattered glass that will be blasting into the room. My home town of Lompoc California is right next to Vandenberg Air Force Base, where they have numerous ICBM silos to launch part of our share of M.A.D
And we got to watch all the duck and cover movies at school assemblies. And remember all those bad sci-fi movies atomic mutated ants and what not?

ps: I was born in 1957

They were more designed to withstand the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout that would follow after the bombs fell, basically none of the shelters were, or could have been designed to survive a direct impact from a Nuke.

I don't want this topic to completely die off....

Very cool thread I love the pictures. Thanks!

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I think it would be sort of cool to live in a steel interior vault with lead walls outside of the steel, and have multiple families that live in them like the vaults in Fallout series, but have about 5 different Vault neighborhoods connected so you dont get bored of the same people. So It's like, what, 5 families in one vault + 5 vaults connected by a tunnel with lead walls or even escalator type things. That's around 25 people to hang out with and you wouldn't get bored of the same interior. =P

What a great thread.

My "Fallout" experience comes from the school I went to back in the 80's.

Back in WWII, my school [it's in Perth, Western Australia] was used by the US army as a military hospital and because of the fear of Japanese airraids, an extensive tunnel system and air raid shelters was contructed underneath the school to shelter the patients in case of such an event. Now after the army left these tunnels were sealed up until the cuban missile crisis when they were quietly reopened again, cleaned up and made ready in case of nuclear war.

While I was at school, the cold war was still going strong and I clearly remeber 1984 as being a particularly tense year. Our house master told us of the tunnels and said that if anything was to hapen that we were to get the keys for the padlocks and head into them and ride it out. I recall having a brief look down there and knew that if we had to sit down there for at least 2 weeks waiting for the initial fallout/rad count to drop, we'd be Ok although the shelters weren't provisioned and the place would have been plunged into complete darkness as the power was conected to the main grid. The good thing though was that there were many entery/exit points and one lead straight to the kitchens of the school so I presume the school board had factored that supllies would be retrieved from there.

By 1988 though the tunnel system was quietly sealed once more but they're still there and I suspect it wouldn't take much to clean them up again and set them up for their intended purpose.

I still had no idea that you'd only have to wait for 2 weeks for radiation to clear.

I know. I love hearing about all the real life stuff and how close this game was to actually happening.


I kinda wish this threat was stickied so I wouldn't have to always worry about it dying. There are few threads that are more relevant, interesting, or informative than this one in my opinion.

I remember the bomb drills in school growing up. Seems they don't have them anymore... my daughter (teenager) goes through "code 99" drills - for when another student might show up with a gun. Sign of the times I guess.

My husband grew up in an apartment building in the city and his parents were the supers. The basemant was considered an official "fallout shelter" and they had to keep it stocked with big drums of clean water and saltine crackers. LOL! Now there's a healthy diet for ya.