Yesterday, I drove a turreted FV432 at Armourgeddon.
I was pleased to note that the vehicle we drove was one of the original 13 converted by the Berlin Brigade. Because I was the last one to drive, I had to reverse park the thing.
Lots of fun, I can recommend it. Plus, they have an interesting collection of vehicles and military equipment from the #SecondWorldWar and #ColdWar.
Ny udstilling på Danmarks Jernbanemuseum, som anskueliggør, hvilken rolle jernbanerne og DSB havde under Den Kolde Krig. Foruden støtten til Forsvaret skulle DSB indgå i det civile beredskab med et større antal bedriftværn, hvis opgave var at redde liv og begrænse skader efter et angreb.
As you wrap your head around particles from wildfires creating risk 1000s of km away, and even on the other side of the world, use this to understand how radioactive fallout particles from nuclear weapon "tests" spread radioactive particles all around the world.
They have been found on every continent, at the poles, in the Mariana Trench, even in #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki.
This is the fallout cloud from the #Bravo test in the Marshall Islands in 1954, taken 15 minutes after detonation. H-bomb tests brought these particulates high into the upper atmosphere where they circled the Earth before "falling out" all across the globe. Many remain dangerous for 100s or 1000s of years.
The title of this film is very misleading. It makes it sound like a low-budget 50s scifi, but this is actually a very well made movie. I think it's on par with The Day the Earth Stood Still (1952), except this film had a lot more special effects. They used a combination of stop action and other practical effects as well as post processing techniques.
The guy who did the special effects on this film, Ray Harryhauser, invented a technique called Dynamation, a special type of stop action effect. He went on to work on the 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1956) which is probably one of the most well-known stop action/live action films of the era. But this film uses a wide variety of techniques as well as stop action.
The writing and acting are also top-notch. The actors weren't big stars but they were accomplished character actors. It has a fully developed plot and the dialogue was well written. Also, they got a lot of the science facts right on this one, at least more than usual for a Hollywood scifi. They even tried to explain special relativity, incorrectly of course, but they tried.
I highly recommend this film to anyone who likes old science fiction movies.
It’s just unfortunate that they gave this film such a cheap-sounding name. They even released it as a double-feature with The Werewolf. (I guess film marketing has improved since then as well as special effects. 😆 )
an ugly movie poster with orange and white headlines, muted colors, with images of flying saucers that are shooting rays to the ground and robot creatures walking around, the large headlines say flying saucers attack! warning! take cover! earth vs the flying saucers, small headlines say flying saucers invade our planet: washington, london, paris, moscow, take cover!, a smaller inset image of a man and woman looking scared and holding each other.
“If it had not been for the accident of my birth, I would have been an anti-Semite.”
-Henry Kissinger
He may be a German Jew who fled the Nazis, but he has allied himself with the same forces who cheered Hitler on, who enabled him, who have encouraged and supported Hitler-imitators throughout the world.
>1million dead from U.S. bombs, napalm & pesticides in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos during his tenure as Secretary of State (along with 30,000 mostly working-class U.S. citizens)
*Torture & murder of tens of thousands of Chileans under Pinochet, after the Kissinger-U.S. supported overthrow of Allende
*Operation Condor, to hunt down & slaughter revolutionaries throughout Latin America
*Indonesian invasion of East Timor & genocide (1975), which killed up to 300,000
*Military slaughter & genocide in Bangladesh (1971) which killed up to 3 million people
*Support for dictatorships in Spain, Portugal, Greece, S Arabia, Iran.
*Support for right-wing insurgencies in Africa
Where do #Republicans get their perverted gun culture? From today's Russia, led by the "ex-"communist "ex-"KGB demi-god Putin, like all of the other puppets of the supposedly dead Soviet Union. Seems alive and kicking to me. #ColdWar The differences seems on-paper only. This is the rhetoric of weakness promulgated by the corrupt, as cold war rhetoric is.
"Belarus's Lukashenko says there can be 'nuclear weapons for everyone'"
Last month I had the pleasure of having a talk and discussion with members of International Students / Youth Pugwash about my book Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha on Zoom.
Here is a video of the book talk presentation part of the event.
...banned from any trading on financial markets whose decisions might influence their decisions.
Last but not least, #CitizensUnitedVsFEC must be reversely codified.
All #US allies must be given the same most-favored nation treatment. Further clashes w/ authoritarian systems are already on the horizon. #Capitalism won the #ColdWar, now it is part of the problem.
A #NewDeal 3.0 must be developed and the #US must become more of a social-democracy like..
#OTD in 1980, six terrorists entered the Iranian embassy in London and took twenty-six people hostage. Six days later, the SAS stormed the building under the watchful eye of TV news, broadcasting events live.
...become president and #PutinsPuppet, as I used to call #TFG in certain circumstances (e. g. #Ukraine), and if #Dems had not re-taken the #Senate--SMALL if's--the tipping point would have already been passed.
*The #PRC, like other authoritarian states, sees itself as a democracy.
Despite its sensationalist pulpy title and #ColdWar premise, Jack Arnold's adaptation of the #RichardMatheson novel is an existentialist treatise.
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) plays with the understanding of what it means to be acknowledged as a human, and one's place in the world. The story is told through the eyes of the titular Shrinking Man – Scott Carey – who after being exposed to strange fog, finds himself increasingly lost in this world.
Joseph #Losey's The Damned (1962) starts out as your conventional, lurid, early counterculture affair.
An American tourist visiting #Dorset is tricked by a prostitute, then falls victim to a youth gang controlled by King, a still very green Oliver Reed at his meanest. The trickster is King's sister, who confides in the American hoping to escape her brother's incestuous avances. They elope to a nearby island, closely followed by King and his gang, where they find a group of #children, all contently living in an underground lab, with #AutomaticDoors only they can control. These are the damned.
I am a historian of nuclear science & technology at Hiroshima Peace Inst & Grad School of Peace Studies. My book Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha (Yale 2022) surveys harm from #nuclear production, weapon testing, & reactor accidents across the globe, & medical models that obscure harm from fallout particles.
Collecting oral histories in 20+ countries , I examine how communities, families and interior psychology suffer via exposures.
I track nuclear #colonialism (selecting the irradiated) arguing the #ColdWar was a limited nuclear war against these populations.
I also explore our relationship to our HL nuclear waste, asserting it is how our descendants will know us. Our choices now reveal our lack of consideration of the 1000s of generations of living beings for whom this waste is already a part of their world.
Previous life: l was a chef & worked w/ #organic food